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MISCELLANIES

UPON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

JOHN AUBEEY, F.R.S.

THE FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,

SOHO SQUARE.

1857.

CONTENTS.

Page
£IFE of Aubrey ... . . . vii

Dedication to the First Edition . . . xr
Day -Fatality : or, Some Observations of Days

Lucky and Unlucky . . . .1

Day-Fatality of Rome .. ' . . • . . . . 21

Of Fatalities of Families and Places . . . . 25

Ostenta ; or, Portents . .' . . . . : . 33

Omens . » . ^i 38

Dreams . . . ' .' • ••;•' . . • 49

Apparitions . . . . • ... • • 70

Voices , .... . . " . . . 106

Impulses . ••"•"•• • • •. r • • 112

Knockings . . . ' . • .... 117

Blows invisible 119

Prophesies 120

Miranda . . 124

Magick * . 130

Transportation by an invisible Power . . . .142

Visions in a Beryl or Crystal . . . ... 154

Visions without a Glass or Crystal . . .. * . 158

Converse with Angels and Spirits . . » j . 159

Corps-candles in Wales .165

vi CONTENTS.

Page

Oracles 168

Ecstacy 169

Glances of Love and Malice 172

An accurate account of Second- Sigh ted Men in Scotland 174

Additaments of Second-Sight . . . . , . 194

Farther Additaments 196

Appendix . . . . . . . . 209

Index .... 223

THE LIFE OF JOHN AUBEEY.

OHN AUBEEY, the subject of this brief
notice, was born at Easton Pierse, (Parish
of Kington,) in Wiltshire, on the 12th of
March, 1626 ; and not on the 3rd of
November in that year, as stated by some of his biogra-
phers. He was the eldest son of Richard Aubrey, Esq.
of Burleton, Herefordshire, and Broad Chalk, Wiltshire.
Being, according to his own statement, " very weak, and
like to dye," he was baptized on the day of his birth, as
appears by the Register of Kington. At an early age
(1633) he was sent to the Grammar School at Yatton
Keynel, and in the following year he was placed under the
tuition of Mr. Robert Latimer, the preceptor of Hobbes,
a man then far advanced in years.

On the 2nd of May, 1642, being then sixteen years of
age, Aubrey was entered a gentleman commoner of Trinity
College, Oxford, where he appears to have applied himself
closely to study. He however cherished a strong pre-
dilection for English History and Antiquities, which was
fostered and encouraged at this time by the appearance of
the " Monasticon Anglicanum," to which he contributed

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a plate of Osney Abbey, an ancient ruin near Oxford,
entirely destroyed in the Civil Wars.

On the 16th of April, 1646, Aubrey was admitted a
student of the Middle Temple, but the death of his father
shortly after, leaving him heir to estates in Wiltshire,
Surrey, Herefordshire, Brecknockshire and Monmouth-
shire, obliged him to relinquish his studies and look to his
inheritance, which was involved in several law suits.

Though separated from his associates in the University,
he appears to have kept up a correspondence with several
of them, and among others, Anthony Wood, whom he
furnished with much valuable information. Wood made
an ungrateful return for this assistance, and in his Auto-
biography thus speaks of him: — "An. 1667. John
Aubrey of Easton Piers in the parish of Kingston, Saint
Michael in Wiltshire, was in Oxon. with Edward Forest,
a Bookseller, living against Alls. Coll. to buy books. He
then saw lying on the stall Notitise Aeademise Oxoniensis,
and asking who the author of that book was ? he [Edw.
Forest] answered, the report was that one Mr. Anth.
Wood, of Merton College was the author, but was not.
Whereupon Mr. Aubrey, a pretender to Antiquities, hav-
ing been contemporary to A. Wood's elder brother in Trin.
Coll. and well acquainted with him, he thought, that he
might be as well acquainted with A. W. himself. Where-
upon repairing to his lodgings, and telling him who he
was, he got into his acquaintance, talked to him about his
studies, and offered him what assistance he could make, in
order to the completion of the work that he was in hand
with. Mr. Aubrey was then in sparkish garb, came to

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town with his man and two horses, spent high, and flung
out A. W. in all his recknings. But his estate of 7001i
per an. being afterwards sold and he reserving nothing of
it to himself, liv'd afterwards in very sorry condition, and at
length made shift to rub out by hanging on Edm. Wyld,
Esq., living in Blomesbury near London, on James Carle
of Abendon, whose first wife was related to him, and
on Sr Joh. Aubrey his kinsman, living sometimes in
Glamorganshire and sometimes at Borstall near Brill in
Bucks. He was a shiftless person, roving and magotie-
headed, and sometimes little better than erased. And
being exceedingly credulous, would stuff his many letters
sent to A. W. with folliries and misinformations, which
would somtimes guid him into the paths of errour." This
example of bad English, and worse taste, was written after
twenty-five years acquaintance ! in singular contrast to
it, is a letter of Aubrey to Wood, charging him, it is true,
with an abuse of confidence and detraction, but urging his
complaint in terms which sufficiently evince the kindly and
affectionate nature of the writer.

Malone, in his " Historical Account of the English
Stage," has done Aubrey justice ; and his remarks may
properly find a place here. " That the greater part of his
(Aubrey's) life was devoted to literary pursuits, is ascer-
tained by the works which he has published, the corres-
pondence which he held with many eminent men, and the
collections which he left in manuscript and which are now
reposited in the Ashmolean Museum. Among these col-
lections is a curious account of our English Poets, and
many other writers. While Wood was preparing his

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Athense Oxonienses, this manuscript was lent to him, as
appears from many queries in his handwriting in the
margin ; and his account of Milton, with whom Aubrey
was intimately acquainted, is (as has been observed by
Mr. Warton) literally transcribed from thence." After
alluding to the quarrel between Wood and Aubrey, he
continues, " But whatever Wood in a peevish humour
may have said or thought of Mr. Aubrey, by whose labours
he has highly profited, or however fantastical Aubrey may
have been on the subject, of chemistry and ghosts, his
character for veracity has never been impeached, and as a
very diligent Antiquary, his testimony is worthy of atten-
tion. Mr. Toland, who was well acquainted with him,
and certainly a better judge of men than Wood, gives this
character of him : ' Though he was extremely superstitious,
or seemed to be so, yet he was a very honest man, and
most accurate in his account of matter of fact. But the
facts he knew, not the reflections he made, were what I
wanted.' "

Aubrey preserved, amidst all his troubles, an intimacy
with the men of Science and Letters of his day, and with
them formed the nucleus of the Royal Society. Some of
the principal incidents of his life are briefly detailed in the
following autobiographical memoranda, entitled

ACCIDENTS OF JOHN AUBEEY.

Born at Easton-Piers, March 1625,6, about sun-rising ;
very weak and like to Dye, & therefore christned that
morning before Prayer. I think I have heard my mo-
ther say I had an Ague shortly after I was born.

THE LIFE OF JOHN AUBREY. xi

1629. About three or four years old I had a grievous
ague, I can remember it. I got not health till eleven
or twelve, but had sickness of Vomiting for 12 hours
every fortnight for years, then it came monthly for
then quarterly & then half yearly, the last was in June
1642. This sickness nipt my strength in the bud.

1633. At eight years old I had an issue (naturall) in the
coronall sutor of my head, which continued running
till 21.

1634. October, I had a violent fevor, it was like to have
carried me off ; 'twas the most dangerous sickness that
ever I had.

1639. About 1639 or 1643 I had the measills, but that
was nothing, I was hardly sick. Monday after Easter
week my Uncle's Nag ranne away with me & gave me
a very dangerous fall.

1642. May 3. Entered at Trinity College.

1643. April & May, the Small Pox at Oxon; after left
that ingeniouse place <fc for three years led a sad life in
the Country.

1646. April — Admitted of the M. Temple, but my fathers
sickness and business never permitted me to make any
settlement to my study.

1651. About the 16 or 18 of April I saw that incom-
parable good conditioned gentlewoman Mls M. Wiseman,
with whom at first sight I was in love.

1652. October the 21. my father died.

1655. (I think) June 14. I had a fall at Epsam <fc brake
one of my ribbes, and was afraid it might cause an
apostumation.

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1656. Sept. 1655 or rather I think 1656 I began my
chargeable & tedious lawe Suite on the Entaile in
Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire. This yeare and
the last was a strange yeare to me. Several love and
lawe suites.

1656 — Decemb 9 morb

1657. Novemb 27. obiit Dna Kasker Eyves with whom I
was to marry, to my great losse.

1659. March or April like to break my neck in Ely
Minster ; and the next day, riding a gallop there my
horse tumbled over and over, and yet I thank God no
hurt.

1660. July. Aug. I accompanied A. Ettrick into Ireland
for a month & returning were like to be shipwrecked at
Holyhead but no hurt done.

1661. "I About these yeares I sold my Estate in Hereford-

1662. >• shire. Janu. I had the honour to be elected

1663. J Fellow of the E. S.

1664. June 11 landed at Calais, in August following had
a terrible fit of the spleen and piles at Orleans. I re-
turned in October.

1664 or 1665. Munday after Christmas was in danger to
be spoiled by my horse; and the same day received
laBsio in testiculo, which was like to have been fatal.
O. E. Wiseman quod — I believe 1664.

1665. November 1 . I made my first address (in an ill
hour) to Joane Sumner.

1 666. This yeare all my business and affairs ran kim kam,
nothing tooke effect, as if I had been under an ill

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tongue. Treacheries and enmities in abundance against
me.

1667. December Arrested in Chancery Lane at Mrs

Sumner's suite.

Feb. 24 A.M. about 8 or 9 Triall with her at Sarum ;
Victory and ,£600 damaged ; through devilish opposi-
tion against me.

1668. July 6. was arrested by Peter Gale's malicious
contrivance the day before I was to go to Winton for
my second triall ; but it did not retard me above two
hours, but did not then go to triall.

1669. March 5 was my triall at Winton from eight to
nine. The Judge being exceedingly made against me
by my Lady Hungerford but four of the appearing
and much adoe got the moiety of Sarum : Verdict in
£300.

1669 and 1670 I sold all my Estate in Wilts. From
1670 to this very day (I thank God) I have enjoyed a
happy delitescency.

1671. Danger of Arrests.

1677. Latter end of June an impostume brake in my head.
Mdm. S* John's night 1673 in danger of being run
through with a sword by a young templer at M. Burges'
chamber in the M. Temple.

I was in danger of being killed by William Earl of Pem-
broke then Lord Herbert at the election of Sir William
Salkeld for New Sarum. I have been in danger of
being drowned twice.

The year that I lay at M. Neve's (for a short time) I was
in great danger of being killed by a drunkard in the

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Street of Grays Inn Gate by a Gentleman whom I never
saw before but (Deo gratias) one of his companions
hindred his thrust.

[1754 June 11. transcribed from a MS. in
M. Aubrey's own handwriting in the
possession of Dr E. Rawlinson.

These incidents are so curiously narrated, and afford
such interesting glimpses of the times to which they refer,
that it is to be regretted they exist in so brief a form.

Several of Aubrey's biographers have given a very loose
and unsatisfactory account of him, and it was left for Mr.
Eritton to prepare a more authentic Life of one who had
laboured long and zealously to preserve the records of the
past. To that gentleman we owe many particulars re-
garding the close of Aubrey's career ; among others, the
entry of his burial at Oxford, in the church of St. Mary
Magdalene — " 1697. John Aubery a stranger was Buryed
Jun. 7th."

To Mr. Britton we are also indebted for the fact that
Aubrey was never married ; the statement that he had been
united to Joan Sumner, resting on no surer foundation
than the allusion to that lady in the " Accidents " above
quoted. He died intestate, and Letters of Administration
were granted on the 18th December, 1697, to his surviving
brother William. In that license he is described as " late
of Broad Chalk in the County of Wilts, Batchelw."

[DEDICATION TO THE FIRST EDITION.]
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE,

JAMES EAKL OF ABINGDON,

LOUD CHIEF-JUSTICE IN EYBE OF ALL HIS MAJESTY'S
FORESTS AND CHACES ON THIS SIDE TRENT.

MY LORD,

[HEN I enjoyed the contentment of Solitude
in your pleasant walks and gardens at
Lavington the last summer, I reviewed
several scattered papers which had lain by
me for several years ; and then presumed to think, that if
they were put together, they might be somewhat enter-
taining : I therefore digested them there in this order, in
which I now present them to your Lordship.

The matter of this collection is beyond human reach :
we being miserably in the dark, as to the oeconomy of the
invisible world, which knows what we do, or incline to, and
works upon our passions, and sometimes is so kind as to
afford us a glimpse of its pnescience.

xvi DEDICATION.

MY LORD,

It was my intention to have finished my Description of
Wiltshire* (half finished already) and to have dedicated it
to your Lordship : hut my age is now too far spent for
such undertakings: I have therefore devolved that task
on my country man, Mr. Thomas Tanner,f who hath
youth to go through with it, and a genius proper for such
an undertaking.

Wherefore, I humbly beseech your Lordship to accept
of this small offering, as a grateful memorial of the pro-
found respect which I have for you, who have for many
years taken me into your favour and protection.

MY LORD,

May the blessed Angels be your careful guardians :
such are the prayers of

Your Lordship's
Most obliged

And humble Servant,

JOHN AUBREY.
1696.

* In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
\ Afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph.

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DAY-FATALITY:

OE, SOME OBSERVATIONS OF DAYS
LUCKY AND UNLUCKY.

Luc. xix. 43.
In hoc die tuo : In this thy day.

HAT there be good and evil times, not only
the sacred scriptures, but prophane authors
mention : see 1 Sam. 25, 8. Esther 8, 17.
and 9, 19, 22. Ecclus. 14. 14.

The fourteenth day of the first month was a memorable
and blessed day amongst the children of Israel : see Exod.
12, 18, 40, 41, 42, 51. Levit. 23, 5. Numb. 28, 16.
Four hundred and thirty years being expired of their
dwelling in Egypt, even in the self same day departed
they thence.

A thing something parallel to this we read in the
Roman histories : that, that very day four years, that the

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civil wars were begun by Pompey the father, Caesar made
an end of them with his sons ; Cneius Pompeius being then
slain, and it being also the last battle Caesar was ever in.
(Heylin in the kingdom of Corduba.) The calendar to
Ovid's Fastorum, says, Aprilis erat mensis Grcecis auspi-
catisimus, a most auspicious month among the Grsecians.

As to evil days and times ; see Amos 5, 13. and 6, 3.
Eccles. 9, 12. Psal. 37, 19. Obad. 12. Jer. 46, 21.
And Job hints it, in cursing his birth-day. Cap. 3, v. 1,
10, 11. See Weever, p. 458.

Early in a morning
In an evil tyming,

Went they from Dunbar.

Horace, lib. 2. Ode 13. Cursing the tree that had like
to have fallen upon him, says, Hie nefasto te posuit die ;
intimating that it was planted in an unlucky day.

The Eomans counted Feb. 13, an unlucky day, and
therefore then never attempted any business of importance ;
for on that day they were overthrown at Allia by the Gauls ;
and the Fabii attacking the city of the Veii, were all slain,
save one. (Heylin, speaking of St. Peter's patrimony.)
And see the calendar annext to Ovid's Fastorum, as to the
last circumstance.

The Jews accounted August 10, an unfortunate day ;
for on that day the Temple was destroyed by Titus, the
son of Vespasian ; on which day also the first Temple was

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consumed with fire by Nebuchadnezzar. (Heylin.) The
treasury of the times says the eighth of Loyon (August)
the very same day 679 years one after another.

And not only among the Eomans and Jews, but also
among Christians, a like custom of observing such days is
used, especially Childermas or Innocent's day. Comines
tells us, that Lewis XI. used not to debate any matter, but
accounted it a sign of great misfortune towards him, if any
man communed with him of his affairs ; and would be very
angry with those about him, if they troubled him with any
matter whatsoever upon that day.

But I will descend to more particular instances of lucky
and unlucky days.

Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born.
Upon the same day he conquered Darius, won a great
victory at sea, and died the same day.

Neither was this day less fortunate to his father Philip ;
for on the same day he took Potidea; Parmenio, his
General, gave a great overthrow to the Illyrians ; and his
horse was victor at the Olympic Games. Therefore, his
prophets foretold to him, Filium eujus natalis, &c. That
a son whose birth-day was accompanied with three victories,
should prove invincible. Pezelius in melificio Tiistorico.

Upon the thirtieth of September, Pompey the Great was
born : upon that day he triumphed for his Asian conquest;
and on that day he died.

4 DAT-FATALITY.

The nineteenth of August was the day of Augustus his
adoption : on the same day he began his consulship : he
conquered the Triumviri, and on the same day he died.
Hitherto out of the memoirs of King Charles I's. heroes.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death hetter than the
day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also
may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy
days. And therefore I will insert here, that the eleventh
of February was the noted day of Elizabeth, wife to Henry
VII. who was born and died that day. Weever, p. 476.
Brooke, in Henry VII. marriage. Stow, in Anno 1466,
1503.

As also that the twenty-third of November was the ob-
servable day of Francis, Duke of Lunenburgh, who was
born on that day, and died upon the same, 1549, as says
the French author of the Journal History, who adds upon
particular remark and observable curiosity.

Ipsa dies vitam contulit, ipsa necem.
The same day life did give,

And made him cease to live.

.-.#

Sir Kenelm Digby, that renowned knight, great linguist,
and magazine of arts, was born and died on the eleventh
of June, and also fought fortunately at Scanderoon the
same day. Hear his epitaph, composed by Mr. Ferrar,
and recited in the aforesaid Memoirs :

DAY-FATALITY. 5

Under this stone the matchless Digby lies,
Digby the great, the valiant and the wise :
This age's wonder for his noble parts ;
Skill'd in six tongues, and learn'd in all the arts.
Born on the day he died, th' eleventh of June,
On which he bravely fought at Scanderoon.
'Tis rare that one and self-same day should be
His day of birth, of death, of victory.

I had a maternal uncle, that died the third of March,
1678, which was the anniversary day of his birth; and
(which is a truth exceeding strange) many years ago he
foretold the day of his death to be that of his birth ; and
he also averred the same but about the week before his de-
parture. The third of March is the day of St. Eutropius ;
and as to my uncle it was significative ; it turned well to
him, according to that of Eev. 14, 13. Blessed are the
dead, &c. and that of Ovid Metam. lib. 3.

Dicique beatus,

Ante obitum nemo supremague funera debet.

None happy call

Before their death, and final funeral.

The sixth of January was five times auspicious to Charles,
Duke of Anjou. Ibid, in the life of the Earl of Sunder-
land.

The twenty-fourth of February was happy to Charles
V. four times. (Ibid.) Heylin, speaking of the Temple of
Jerusalem, hints three of these four ; his birth, taking of

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Francis, King of France, prisoner ; his receiving the Im-
perial crown at Bononia. And so doth also the Journal
History before mentioned.

Of the family of the Trevors, six successive principal
branches have been born the sixth of July. Same memoirs.

Sir Humphrey Davenport was born the seventh of July ;
and on that day anniversary, his father and mother died,
within a quarter of an hour one of another. Same me-
moirs.

I have seen an old Romish MSS. prayer-book, (and
shewed the same to that general scholar, and great astro-
loger, Elias Ashmole, Esq ;) at the beginning whereof was
a Calendar wherein were inserted the unlucky days of each
month, set out in verse. I will recite them just as they
are, sometimes infringing the rule of grammar, sometimes
of Prosodia ; a matter of which the old monkish rhymers
were no way scrupulous. It was as ancient as Henry the
sixth, or Edward the fourth's time.

January. Prima dies mensis, $ septima truncat ut ensis.

February. Quarta subit mortem, prosternit tertia for tem.

March. Primus mandentem, disrumpit quarta biben-

tem.

April. Denus Sf undenus est mortis vulnere plenus.

May. Tertius occidit, <$f Septimus or a relidit.*

June. Denus pallescit, quindenus fcedera nescit.

* Ex re & ledo.

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July. Ter-decimus mactat, Julij denus Idbefactat.

August. Prima necat fortem, prosternit secunda colior-

tem.

September. Tertia Septembris 6f denus fert mala membris.
October. Tertius # denus est, sicut, mors alienus.
November. Scorpius est quintus, ty tertius e nece cinctus.
December. Septimus eocanguis, virosus denus fy anguis.

The tenth verse is intolerable, and might be mended thus.
Tertia cum dena sit sicut mors aliena.

If any object and say, Deni is only the plural ; I excuse
my self by that admirable chronogram upon King Charles
the martyr.

Ter deno, Jani, Lunce, Rex (Sole cadente)
Carolus exutus Solio, Sceptroque, secure.

Neither will I have recourse for refuge to that old ter-
rastich,

Intrat Avaloniam duodena Caterva virorum
Flos Arimathice Joseph, fyc.

because I have even now blamed the liberty of the ancient
rhymers. He means by Mors aliena, some strange kind
of death ; though aliena signifies in quite another sense
than there used.

I shall take particular notice here of the third of Novem- 1
ber, both because 'tis my own birth day, and also for that \
I have observed some remarkable accidents to have hap- j
pened thereupon.

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Constantius, the Emperor, son of Constantine the Great,
little inferior to his father, a worthy warrior, and good man,
died the third of November : Ex veteri Calendario penes me.

Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, that great man,
and famous commander under Henry IV. V. and VI. died
this day, by a wound of a cannon-shot he received at Or-
leans, E MSS. quodam, &f Glovero.

So also Cardinal Borromeo, famous for his sanctity of
life, and therefore canonized, (Heylin in his Prcecognita,
says, he made Milan memorable, by his residence there)
died 1584, this day, as Possevinus in his life.

Sir John Perrot, (Stow corruptly calls him Parrat) a
man very remarkable in his time, Lord Deputy of Ireland,
son to Henry VIII. and extremely like him, died in the
tower, the third of November, 1592 (as Stow says). Grief,
and the fatality of this day, killed him. See Naunton's
Fragmenta Regalia, concerning this man.

Stow, in his Annals, says, Anno 1099, November 3, as
well in Scotland as England, the sea broke in, over the
banks of many rivers, drowning divers towns, and much
people, with an innumerable number of oxen and sheep, at
which time the lands in Kent, sometimes belonging to
Earl Godwin, were covered with sands, and drowned, and
to this day are called Godwin's Sands.

I had an estate left me in Kent, of which between thirty

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and forty acres was marsh-land, very conveniently flanking
its up-land ; and in those days this marsh-land was usually
let for four nohles an acre. My father died, 1643. 1
Within a year and half after his decease, such charges '
and water-schots came upon this marsh-land, hy the in-
fluence of the sea, that it was never worth one farthing to
me, but very often eat into the rents of the up-land : so
that I often think, this day heing my hirth-day, hath the
same influence upon me, that it had 580 years since upon
Earl Godwin, and others concerned in low-lands.

The Parliament, so fatal to Rome's concerns here, in j
Henry VIIFs. time, hegan the third of November (26 of I
his reign ;) in which the Pope, with all his authority, was
clean banished the realm ; he no more to be called other-
wise than Bishop of Kome ; the King to be taken and
reputed as supreme head of the church of England, having
full authority to reform ah1 errors, heresies and abuses of
the same : also the first-fruits and tenths of all spiritual
promotions and dignities were granted to the King. See
Stow's Annals, and Weever, page 80.

Not long after which, followed the visitation of abbies,
priories, and nunneries ; and after that, their final suppres-
sion : this Parliament being the door, or entrance thereto.

The third of November 1640, began that Parliament so \
direfully fatal to England, in its peace, its wealth, its religion,
its gentry, its nobility ; nay, its King. So verifying the
former verse of the calendar.

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Scorpius est quintus, fy tertius e nece cinctus.
A killing day to some or other.

On the third of November 1703, was the remarkable
storm.

The third of September was a remarkable day to the
English Attila, Oliver, 1650. He obtained a memorable
victory at Dunbar ; another at Worcester, 1651, and that
day he died, 1658.

The first two occurrences wonderfully accord to the pre-
ceding verses.

Tertia Septembris, fy denus fert mala membris.

Being fatal to the two members of Great Britain, Scotland
and England. The third, as happy to them both, as the
same day, 1666, was dismal and unhappy to the city of
London, and consequently to the whole kingdom, with its
immediate preceding and two succeeding days, viz. the
second, fourth, and fifth of September.

I come now to the days of the week.

Tuesday (Dies Martis) was a most remarkable day with
Thomas Becket, Arch Bishop of Canterbury, as Weever,
201, observes from Mat. Paris : Mars, Secundum Poetas,
Deus Belli nuncupatur. Vita Sancti Thomce (secundum
illud Job, Vita hominis militia est super terram) tota fuit
contra kostem bellicosa, fyc. The life of St. Thomas
(according to that of Job, the life of man is a warfare

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upon earth) was a continual conflict against the enemy.
Upon a Tuesday he suffered ; upon Tuesday he was trans-
lated ; upon Tuesday the Peers of the land sat against him
at Northampton ; upon Tuesday he was banished ; upon
Tuesday the Lord appeared to him at Pontiniac, saying,
Thomas, Thomas, my church shall he glorified in thy
blood ; upon Tuesday he returned from exile ; upon Tues-
day he got the palm or reward of martyrdom ; upon Tues-
day 1220, his venerable body received the glory and re-
nown of translation, fifty years after his passion. Thus my
author.

One thing I make bold to gloss upon. His translation
is here mentioned twice.

Note, this is no tautology of the historian ; but the latter
paragraph is a mere recitation of the first, viz. reference to
the time when he was translated into the number of Saints
and Martyrs: quando in divorum numerum relatus, as
Camden.

Wednesday is said to have been the fortunate day of
Sixtus Quintus, that Pope of renowned merit, that did so
great and excellent things in the time of his government.
See the just weight of the scarlet robe, (page 101, his
desired praises.) On a Wednesday he was born ; on that
day he was made Monk ; on the same he was made Gene-
ral of his order ; on that also, was he successively created
Cardinal, elected Pope, and also inaugurated. See Heylin,
speaking of the Temple of Jerusalem.

Friday was observed to be very fortunate to the great

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renowned Captain Gonsalvo, he having on that day given
the French many memorahle defeats.

Saturday was a lucky day to Henry VII. upon that day
he atchieved the victory upon Richard III. being August
22, 1485. On that day he entered the city, being August
29, (correct Stow, who mistakes the day) and he himself
always acknowledged, he had experienced it fortunate.
See Bacon in his Life.

Thursday was a fatal day to Henry VIII. (as Stow, 812)
and so also to his posterity. He died on Thursday, Jan.
28. King Edward VI. on Thursday, July 6. Queen
Mary on Thursday, November 17. Queen Elizabeth on
Thursday, March 24.

Saturday (or the Jewish Sabbath) was fatal to Jerusalem
Temple ; for on that day it was taken by Pompey, Herod
and Titus, successively. Heylin.

Hitherto by way of prologue. And be pleased to take
notice, as to the days of the month, I have taken such care,
that all are according to the Julian or old account, used by
us here in England. (See Partridge's almanack, preface
to the reader) Pope Gregory XIII. brought in his new
stile (generally used beyond sea) anno 1585, in October,
as asserts the Journal History before recited.

An old proverb.

When Easter falls in our lady's lap,
Then let England beware a rap.

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Easter falls on March 25, when the Sunday letter is G,
and the golden number 5, 13, or 16. As in the late years,
1459, 1638, 1649.

1459, King Henry VI. was deposed and murdered.

1638, The Scottish troubles began, on which ensued the
great rebellion.

1648-9, King Charles I. murdered.

I think it will not happen so again till the year 1991.

Now for epilogue and remarkable reflection.

Turning over our annals, I chanced upon a two-fold
circumstance : I will not say, that none else hath observed
the same ; but I protest, (Ita me Deus amet, ut verum
loquor) I do not know of any that have ; and therefore
must justly claim to be acquitted from the least suspicion of
plagiarism, or plowing with others heifers.

The first is, of William the Conqueror. The second, of
Edward III. (I need not say any thing of the eminency of
these two ; every one knows what great things they did.)
And making reflection upon the auspicious birth-day of His
Koyal Highness the Duke of York, I adventured upon the
following composure. (I cannot be proud of my poetry ;
but I cannot but be glad of my Bon Heur, d'avoir (en
lisant) tombe sifortuement sur les evenements d'un si Bon
Jour.)

Ad Illustrissimum ty Celsissimum Principem, Jacobum
Ducem Eboracensem, de Natali suo Auspicatissimo Octo-
Iris XIV. Anno 1633.

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-Deus

Anne nefasto teposuit die? Hor. lib. 2. ode 13.

Oct. Decimo quarto Normannus Haraldum

Dux superavit, &{ Hinc Regia sceptra tulit.
Tertius Edwardus, capto pernice Caleto,

(Gallica quo Regna sunt resarata sibi)
Ire domum tentans, diris turbinibus actus

In pelago, Vitce magna pericla subit.
Oct. Decimo quarto, tamen appulit Oras

Nativas. (His quam prosperus ille dies !)
Natali Icetare tuo, quam Maxime Princeps ;

Fausta velut sunt hcec, Omina semper habe.

October's fourteenth gave the Norman Duke
That victory, whence he Englands sceptre took.*
Third Edward, after he had Calais won,
(The mean whereby he France did over-run)
Keturning home, by raging tempests tost,
(And near his life (so fortunes) to have lost)f
Arrived safe on shore the self-same date.
(This day to them afforded so fair fate.)
Great Duke, rejoice in this your day of birth ;
And may such omens still encrease your mirth.

The Verses I presented in anno 1672, to a most honour-
able Peer of the land, and of great place near his Eoyal
Highness.

Since wThich time, old Fabian's chronicle coming into
my hands, from him I got knowledge, that that advantagi-

* Stow, in anno 1066. f Stow, in anno 1347.

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ous peace, mentioned by Stow, anno 1360, (concluded
between the forementioned King Edward III. and the
French King) was acted upon the fourteenth of October,
with grand solemnity.

The two former circumstances must needs fall out pro-
videntially : whether this last of anno 1360, was designed
by Edward III. or no, (as remembering his former good
hap) may be some question : I am of opinion not.

Where things are under a man's peculiar concern, he may
fix a time; but here was the French King concerned
equally with the English, and many other great personages
interested. To have tied them up to his own auspicious
conceit of the day, had been an unkind oppression, and
would have brought the judgment of so wise a Prince into
question : we may conclude then, it was meerly fortuitous.
And therefore to the former observation concerning this
famous Edward, give me leave to add,

Insuper hoc ipso die (sibi commoda) Orandis

Rex cum Galligenis, feeder a fecit idem,

An advantageous peace, on day self-same,

This mighty Prince did with the Frenchmen frame.

A memorable peace (foretold by Nostradamus) much
conducing to the saving of Christian blood, was made upon the
fourteenth of October 1557, between Pope Paul IV. Henry
II. of France, and Philip II. of Spain. Nostradamus
says, these great Princes were frappez du del, moved
from Heaven to make this peace. See Garencier's Com-
ment on Nostradamus, p. 76.

16 DAY-FATALITY.

A lucky day this, not only to the Princes of England,
but auspicious to the welfare of Europe. John Gibbon,
1678.

Thus far Mr. John Gibbon. The Latin verses of the
twelve months quoted by him out of an old manuscript, I
have seen in several mass-books ; and they are printed in
the calendar to the works of the venerable Bede. 'Tis to
be presumed, that they were grounded upon experience ;
but we have no instances left us of the memorables of those
days.

As for the third and tenth of September, I have here set
down some extractions from a little book called The His-
torian's Guide : or, Britain's Eemembrancer ; which was
carefully collected by a club. It begins at the year, 1600,
and is continued to 1690. There cannot be found in all
the time aforesaid, the like instances.

Tertia Septenibris, Sf denus fert mala membris.

September 3, 1641. The Parliament adjourned to the
20th of October next, and the Irish rebellion broke out,
where were 20,000 persons barbarously murdered.

September 3, 1643. Biddeford, Appleford, and Barn-
stable surrendered to the King.

September 3, 1650. Dunbar fight.

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September 3, 1651. Worcester fight.

September 3, 1 651 . Earl of Derby defeated at Preston.
September 3, 1 654. A third Parliament at Westminster.
September 3, 1658. Oliver, Protector died.

September 3, 1675. The town of Northampton near
burnt down to the ground by accidental fire.

September 3, 1662. William Lenthal, Speaker of the
House of Commons, died.

September 3, 4, 1665. Four Dutch men of war, two
East-India ships, and several merchant-men taken by the
Earl of Sandwich, with the loss only of the Hector.

September 2, 1644. The Earl of Essex fled to Ply-
mouth, and the army submitted to the King.

September 2, 1645. The Scots raised the siege from
before Hereford.

September 2, 1653. The Londoners petition the Par-
liament to continue tythes.

September 2, 1685. The Lady Lisle beheaded at
Winchester, for harbouring Hicks, a rebel,
c

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September 4, 1643. Exeter taken by Prince Maurice.

September 4, 1653. General Blake buried at West-
minster.

September 5, 1652. The French fleet beaten by the
English.

Memorables on September the tenth.

September 10, 1643. The siege of Gloucester raised.
I remember over that gate which leads to Nymphs-field
was this following inscription in free-stone : the walls are
now pulled down.

Always remember,

The tenth of September,

One thousand six hundred forty three,

And give God the glory.

September 10, 1645. Bristol surrendered to the Par-
liament.

September 10, 1649. Drogheda taken, as appears by
Cromwell's letter to the Speaker Lenthal.

September 10, 1660. Peace with Spain proclaimed.

September 10, 1670. Peace concluded between Eng-
land and Spain in America, was this day ratified at Madrid.

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September 10, 1673. This day his Majesty commanded
the Earl of Ossory to take the command of the fleet at the
Buoy in the Nore, in the absence of Prince Eupert.

September 12, 1679. The King takes from the Duke
of Monmouth his commission of General.

September 12, 1680. Mrs. CeUier tried at the Old
Bailey, for publishing a book called Malice Defeated, <fec.
and found guilty.

September 12, 1683. The siege of Vienna raised (after
the besieged had lost 10,000 men, and the besiegers
70,000) by the King of Poland, and the Duke of Lorrain.

May 29, 1630. King Charles II. born,

May 29, 1660. Eestored.

May 29, 1672. The fleet beaten by the Dutch.

May 29, 1679. A rebellion broke out in the west of
Scotland, where they proclaimed the covenant, and put
forth a declaration.

The Emperor Charles V. was born on February 24,
1500.

He won the battle of Pavia, February 24, 1525.

20 DAT-FATALITY.

Clement VII. crowned him Emperor, February 24, 1530.

Raphael cPUrbino (the famous painter) was born on
Good-Friday, and died on Good-Friday.

At Feltwell in Norfolk (which lies east and west) a fire
happened to break out at the west end, which the west wind
blew and burned ah1 the street : on that day twenty years,
another fire happened there, which began at the east end,
and burned it to the ground again. This I had from a
reverend divine. Quaere de hoc.

Colonel Hugh Grove of Wiltshire, was beheaded at
Exeter (together with Colonel John Penruddock) on the
ninth day of May 1655. On that very day three years,
his son and heir died at London of a malignant fever, and
about the same hour of the day.

A -very good friend of mine and old acquaintance was
born on the 15th of November : his eldest son was born on
the 15th of November, and his second son's first son on the
15th of November.

At the hour of prime, April 6, 1327, Petrarch first saw
his mistress Laura in the Church of Saint Clara in Avig-
non. In the same city, same month, same hour, 1348,
she died. 'Tis his own remark. Petrarcha Redivivus,
242.

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DAY-FATALITY OF HOME,

Written by Mr. JOHN PELL, D. D. from whom
I had it.

THEY that called the city of Eome, Urbs Sterna,
seemed to believe that Eome could never be de-
stroyed. But there have been great numbers of men, that
did verily believe, that it shall have an irrecoverable over-
throw. Writers have proceeded so far, as to foretell the
time of Rome's final ruin. Some said that Koine's perdi-
tion should happen in the year of Christ 1670, they have
now been decried nine whole years : so that few take care
to know what reasons moved them to pitch upon that num-
ber.

A Lutheran historian, anno 1656, wrote thus, Finem
Jubileorum Ecclesiasticorum omniumqtue temporum in
Scriptura revelatorum, desinere in Annum Christi Mille-
simum sexcentesimum &f septuagesimum, antehac observavit
Beatus GerTiardus cum PJiilippo Nicolao. But all men
are not of Dr. Gerhard's opinion. Many men believe, that
some of the prophecies in the Eevelations do reach far be-
yond our times, and that the events of future times will
unclasp and unseal a considerable portion of the Apocalypse.

One of the reasons, that recommended the number of
1670, was because it is the sum of 410, and 1260.

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Historians agree, that in the year of Christ 410, in the
month of August, Borne was trampled raider foot, and her
heathen inhabitants were miserably slaughtered by the
victorious army of Alaric, a Christian King of the Goths.
Paulus Diaconus saith, August the 24th was the day of
King Alaric's taking Borne. Kedrenus saith, it was
August the 26th, perhaps the army first entered the 24th,
and the King followed not till two days after.

As for the other number 1260. It is twice found in the
Bevelations of St. John, eh. 11, 3. " My two witnesses
shah* prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days."
And chap. 12, 6. " Should feed the woman in the Wilder-
ness, a thousand two hundred and threescore days." And
it is there expressed in another form, (42 times 30) chap.
11 , 2. " The Gentiles shall tread the holy city underfoot
forty and two months." Chap. 13, 5. " Power was given
to the blasphemous beast to continue forty and two months."
Chap. 12, 14. " The woman is nourished in the Wilder-
ness for (Kaipov KOI KaipuQ KCU jjfiurv rcupa) a season and
seasons, and half a season." See Act. 1, 7. 360 and 720,
and 180 are equal to 1260. So it seems every Kaipo hath
360 days, or twelve months at thirty days to a month. No
cloubt Daniel had given occasion to this expression, chap.
7, 25. " A time, and times, and the dividing of time."
Xo man can ground any distinct reasoning upon such
general words. But yet it is not tied to a just number of
days, (as 360) but is capable of various interpretations in
several prophecies. Daniel useth a plural in both places,
and not a dual, (two times, and two seasons) nor doth John

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say, two seasons: but by his Numeral Illustration, he
teaches us to understand him, as if he had said, (chap. 12,
14.) " For three seasons and half a season :" I say
Numeral Illustration. For I take it to be no other than
an easy example (12 and 24 and 6 are 42) to direct the
sons of the prophets not yet arrived to the skill of dealing
with difficult supputations of numbers not then discover-
able. As Eevel. 13, 18. " Here is wisdom, let him that
hath understanding count the number of the beast."

By 1260 days, almost all the interpreters understand so
many years, but not a year of 360 days ; because they find
no nation that hath so short a year. The Egyptians had
a year of just 365 days ; but before St. John was born,
the Romans had forced them to allow 365^. as we use now
in England.

In an enquiry concerning Rome, it is fit to consider the
length of a Roman year. (I may justly say a Roman-
Moyed ; for no city ever had their years length and form
of a calendar determined, settled, and commanded with so
much absolute authority as Rome had) Julius Csssar by an
edict commanded that number of 365i to be observed, and
therefore it is called a Julian year. Three Julians and an
half have days 1278J-, but Julian years 1378|- are 1278
Julian years, and days 136-|-|. ; or almost 137 days.

Almost 100 years ago, Pope Gregory the XIII. by a
papal bull introduced a calendar wherein the year's length
is supposed to have days 365-J^-. Then three Gregorian

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years and an half have days 1278j-?~§-. But Gregorian
years 1278-f^l are 1278 Julian years, and days almost 118.
Wherefore instead of adding 1260, add 1278, add 137
days to the year of our Lord 410, August 26. The sum
shews the year of our Lord 1688, August 163, that is, ten.
days after the end of December 1688 old stile. This is
the utmost, or farthest day, beyond which no Apocalypse
account (reckoning from Alaric) can point out a time, for
the final destruction of the city of Borne.

Again (instead of adding 1260) add 1278 years, and
days 118 to the year of our Lord 410, August, 24. The
sum shews the year of our Lord 1688, August 142, that
is, eleven days before the end of December 1688 old stile.
This (December 20) is the nearest or soonest day that can
be gathered by Apocalyptic account (reckoning from Alaric)
to point out the time of Rome's final ruin. But if it hap-
pens not before the eleventh of January, men will make no
more reckoning of Alaric ; but begin a new account from
Attila, in the year of Christ, 453.

Calculation to a day (when we can do it) may be defended
by a great example. Exod. 12, 41. " At the end of 430
" years, even the self-same day, &c." John Pell.

Dr. Pell told me, that St. Augustin writes somewhere,
to this purpose, viz. " That it were to be wished, that
" some skilful mathematician would take the pains to ex-
" amine and consider the mathematical parts of the holy
" scripture."

OF FATALITIES OF FAMILIES
AND PLACES.

Lord Chancellor Bacon says,* " As for
nobility in particular persons, it is a reve-
rend thing to see an antient castle or
building not in decay : or to see a fair
" timber tree sound and perfect ; how much more to be-
" hold an antient noble family, which hath stood against
" the waves and weathers of time : for new nobility is but
" the act of power ; but antient nobility is the act of time."

But Omnium rerum est vicissitude : families and places
have their fatalities, according to that of Ovid.

Fors sua cuique loco est. Fast. lib. 4.

This piece of a verse puts me in mind of several places
in Wiltshire, and elsewhere, that are, or have been fortu-
nate to their owners : and e contra.

* Essay XIV. of Nobility.

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Stourton, (the seat of the Lord Stourton) was belonging
to this family before the conquest. They say, that after
the victory at Battaile, William the Conqueror came in
person into the west, to receive their rendition ; that the
Lord Abbot of Glastonbury, and the rest of the Lords and
Grandees of the western parts waited upon the Conqueror
at Stourton-house ; where the family continue to this day.

The honourable family of the Hungerfords, is probably
of as great antiquity as any in the county of Wilts.
Hungerford, (the place of the barony) was sold but lately
by Sir Edward Hungerford, Knight of the Bath ; as also
the noble and ancient seat of Farleigh-Castle, about anno
167. But that this estate should so long continue is not
very strange; for it being so vast, 'twas able to make
several with-standings against the shock of fortune.

The family of Gawen, have been long at Norington, in

the parish of Alvideston in Wiltshire. It was sold by

Gawen, Esq. to Sir Wadham Wyndham, one of the Judges
of the King's Bench, about 1665. They continued in this
place four hundred fifty and odd years. Then also was
sold their estate in Broad-Chalk, which they had as long,
or perhaps longer. On the south down of the farm of
Broad Chalk, is a little barrow, called Gawen's Barrow
(which mustbe before ecclesiastical canons were constituted ;
for since, burials are only in consecrated ground). King
Edgar gave the manor and farm of Broad- Chalk to the
nuns of Wilton-Abby, which is 900 years ago.

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Mr. Thynne, in his explanation of the hard words in
Chaucer, writes thus, Gawen, fol. 23, p. 1. This Gawyn
was sisters son to Arthur the Great, King of the Britains,
a famous man in war, and in all manner of civility ; as in
the acts of the Britains we may read. In the year 1082,
in a province of Wales, called Eose, was his sepulchre
found, dimmer, in the Squire's Tale.

This straunger night that came thus sodenly
All armed, save his head, full royally
Salued the King, and Queen, and Lordes all
By order as they sitten in the Hall
With so high Reverence and Obeisaunce
As well in Speech as in Countenaunce,
That Gawain with his old Courtesie,
Though he came again out of Fairie,
He could him not amend of no word.

Sir William Button of Tockenham, Baronet, (the father)
told me that his ancestors had the lease of Alton-farm
(400Z. per annum) in Wilts, (which anciently belonged
to Hyde-Abby juxta Winton) four hundred years. Sir
William's lease expired about 1652, and so fell into the
hands of the Earl of Pembroke.

Clavel, of Smedmore, in the Isle of Purbec, in the
county of Dorset, was in that place before the conquest, as
appears by Dooms-day book. The like is said of Hampden,
of Hampden in Bucks : their pedigree says, that one of
that family had the conduct of that county in two invasions

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of the Danes. Also Pen of Pen, in that county, was be-
fore the conquest, as by Dooms-day book.

Contrariwise, there are several places unlucky to their
possessors, e. g. Charter-house, on Mendip in Somerset-
shire, never passed yet to the third generation. The
manor of Butleigh near Glastonbury, never went yet to the
third generation.

Bletchington, in Oxfordshire, continued in the family of

the Panures, for about 300 years : it was alienated by

Panure, to Sir John Lenthal, about the year 1630, who
sold it again to Sir Thomas Coghill, about 1635. He sold
it to William Lewis, Esq. whose relict made it over to the
Duke of Eichmond and Lenox, about the year 166. His
Grace sold it to Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, about the year
166.

Fatality of proper names of Prmces, e. g. Augustus,
the first Eoman Emperor, and Augustulus, the last. Con-
stantine, the first Grecian Emperor, and Constantine, the
last. The like is observed of the first and last Mexican
Emperors. And the Turks have a prophesy that the last
Emperor will be a Mahomet.

John hath been an unfortunate name to Kings. All the
second Kings since the conquest have been unfortunate.

London-Derry was the first town in Ireland that de-
clared for the Parliament against King Charles I. and for

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the Prince of Orange against King James II. It was
closely besieged both times without effect. The King's
party were once masters of all the kingdom, except Lon-
don-Deny and Dublin, and King James had all in his
power but London-Derry and Inniskilling. One Taylor,
a minister, was as famous for his martial feats in the first
siege, as Walker in the last.

'Tis certain, that there are some houses unlucky to
their inhabitants, which the reverend and pious Dr. Nepier
could acknowledge. See Tobit, chap. 3, v. 8. " That she
" had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodseus,
" the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her."

The Fleece-tavern, in Covent-garden, (in York-street)
was very unfortunate for Homicides :* there have been
several killed, three in my time. It is now (1692) a
private house.

A handsome brick house on the south side of Clerken-
well church-yard had been so unlucky for at least forty
years, that it was seldom tenanted ; and at last, no body
would adventure to take it. Also a handsome house in
Holborn, that looked toward the fields ; the tenants of it
did not prosper, several, about six.

At the sign of over against Northumberland house,

* " Clifton the master of the house, hanged himself having per-
jured himself." MS. Note in a copy of the Miscellanies in the
Library of the Royal Society.

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near Charing- Cross, died the Lady Baynton, (eldest
daughter of Sir John Danvers of Dansey.) Some years
after, in the same house, died my Lady Hobbey (her
sister) of the small-pox, and about twenty years after, died
then- nephew Henry Danvers, Esq. of the small-pox, aged
twenty-one, wanting two weeks. He was nephew and
heir to the Eight Honourable Henry Danvers, Earl of
Danby.

Edmund Wild, Esq. hath had more Deodands from his
manor of Totham in Essex, than from all his estate besides :
two mischiefs happened in one ground there.

Disinheriting the eldest son is forbid in the holy scrip-
ture, and estates disinherited are observed to be unfortu-
nate ; of which one might make a large catalogue. See
Dr. Saunderson's Sermon, where he discourses of this
subject.

Periodical Small-Poxes.

The small-pox is usually in all great towns :* but it is
observed at Taunton in Somersetshire, and at Sherborne in
Dorsetshire, that at one of them at every seventh year,
and at the other at every ninth year comes a small-pox,
which the physicians cannot master, e. g.

Small-pox in Sherbornef during the year 1626.

* This account I had from Mr. Thomas Ax.
t Extracted out of the register-book.

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And during the year 1634.

From Michaelmas 1642, to Mich. 1643.
From Michaelmas 1649, to Mich. 1650.
From Michaelmas 1657, to Mich. 1658.
In the year 1667, from Jan. to Sept. 1667.

Mr. Ax promised me to enquire the years it happened
there after 1670, and 1680 ; but death prevented him.

Small-pox in Taunton all the year 1658.*

Likewise in the year 1670.

Again in the year 1677.

Again very mortal in the year 1684.

Mr. Ax also promised me to enquire at Taunton the
years it happened there after 1660.

It were to be wished that more such observations were
made in other great towns.

Platerus makes the like observations in the second
book of his Practice, p. 323. He practised at Basil, fifty-

* Out of the register-book.

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six years, and did observe, that every tenth year they died
of the plague there.

See Captain J. Graunt's observations on the bills of
mortality at London, (indeed written by Sir William Petty,,
which in a late transaction he confessed) for the periodical
plagues at London, which (as I remember) are every
twenty-fifth year.

OSTEJSTTA; OK, PORTENTS.

it comes to pass, I know not ;* but
by ancient and modern example it is
evident, that no great accident befalls a
city or province, but it is presaged by
" divination, or prodigy, or astrology, or some way or
" other. I shall here set down a few instances."

A Eainbow appeared about the sun before the battle of
Pharsalia. See Appian, and Mr. T. May's 5th book of his
Continuation of Lucan.

" Ex Chronico Saxonico, p. 112, Anno 1104, fuit
"primus Pentecostes dies Nonis Junii, fy die Martis se-
" fluente, conjuncti sunt quatuor Circuli circa Solem, albi
" coloris, fy quisque sub olio collocatus, quasi picti essent.
" Omnes qui videbant obstupuerunt, propterea quod nun-
" quam ante tales meminerant. Post hcecfacta est Pax inter

* Discourses of Nicholas Machiavel, book 1. chap. 56.

D

34 OS TENT A.

" Comitem Eobertum de Normannid, fy Hobertum de
" Bcelcesme i. e."

In the year 1104, on the first day of Pentecost, the
sixth of June, and on the day following being Tuesday,
four circles of a white colour, were seen to roll in conjunc-
tion round the sun, each under the other regularly placed,
as if they had been drawn by the hand of a painter. All
who beheld it were struck with astonishment, because they
could not learn that any such spectacles had ever happened
in the memory of man. After these things it is remark-
able, that a peace was immediately set on foot, and con-
cluded between Robert, Earl of Normandy, and Kobert de
Baelsesme.

The Duke of York (afterwards Edward IV.) met with
his enemies near to Mortimer's Cross, on Candlemas day
in the morning, at which time the Sun (as some write)
appeared to him like three Suns, and suddenly joined al-
together in one, and that upon the sight thereof, he took
such courage, that he fiercely set on his enemies, and them
shortly discomfited : for which cause, men imagined that
he gave Sun in his full brightness for his cognisance or
badge. Halle, F. 183, b. 4.

Our Chronicles tells us, that Anno Secundo Regince
Marice, 15th of February, two suns appeared, and a rain-
bow reversed : see the bow turned downwards, and the
two ends standing upwards, before the coming in of King
Philip.

OS TENT A. 35

The phenomenon, fig. 1, was seen at Broad-Chalk in

Fig. 1.

Wiltshire, on the first day of May, 1647. It continued
from about eleven o'clock (or before) till twelve. It was a
very clear day ; but few did take notice of it, because it
was so near the sun-beams. My mother happened to espy
it, going to see what o'clock it was by an horizontal dial ;
and then all the servants saw it. Upon the like occasion,
Mr. J. Sloper, B.D. vicar there, saw it, and all his family ;
and the servants of Sir George Vaughan, (then of Falston)
who were hunting on the downs, saw it. The circles were
of rainbow colour ; the two filots, which cross the greater
circle, (I presume they were segments of a third circle)
were of a pale colour. The sun was within the intersec-
tions of the circles.

The next remarkable thing that followed was, that on
the third of June following ;* Cornet Joyce carried King

* See Sir W. Dugdale's hist, of the Civil Wars.

36 OSTENTA.

Charles I. prisoner from Holdenby to the Isle of Wight.
The Isle of Wight lieth directly from Broad-Chalk, at the
10 o'clock point.

The phenomenon, fig. 2, was seen in the north side of
the church-yard of Bishop -Lavington in Wiltshire, about

Fig. 2.

the latter end of September 1688, about three o'clock in
the afternoon. This was more than a semicircle.

B. B. Two balls of light. They were about eleven de-
grees above the Horizon by the quadrant; observed by
Mr. Kobert Blea, one of the Earl of Abingdon's gentle-

" Cicero de Natura Deorum, lib. 2. Multa prceterea
Ostentis, multa ex eis admonemur, multisgue rebus aliis,
quas diutumus usus ita notarit, ut artem Divinationis
efficeret. i. e"

OS TENT A. 37

Besides, we learn a world of things from these Portents
and Prodigies, and many are the warnings and admonitions
we receive from them, and not only from them indeed, but
from a number of extraordinary accidents, upon which
daily use and constant observation has fixed such marks,
that from thence the whole art of divination has been
compounded.

OMENS.

EFOKE the battle at Philippi began, two
eagles fought in the air between the two
armies : both the armies stood still and be-
held them, and the army was beaten that

was under the vanquished eagle. See Appian's Hist.

part 2, lib. 4, §. 2.

It is worthy of notice, that, at the time the cities of
Jerusalem and Antioch were taken from the Pagans, the
Pope, that then was, was called Urban, and the Patriarch
of Jerusalem was called Eradius, and the Eoman Empe-
ror was called Frederick ; in like manner when Jerusalem
was taken from the Christians by the siege of Saladin, the
Pope was called Urban; the Patriarch of Jerusalem,
Eradius ; and the Emperor, Frederick : and it is remark-
able that, fourscore and seven years passed between these
two events. Hoveden. f. 363.

Mathew Parker, seventieth Arch-Bishop of Canterbury,
in the seventieth year of his age, feasted Queen Elizabeth
on her birth day, 1559, in his palace at Canterbury.
Parker. Vita, 556.

OMENS. 39

It is matter of notable consideration, says a Spanish
historian, that the royal throne of the Morish Kings of
Granada, began and ended in the times of the Fernandas
of Castille : beginning in the time of Saint Fernando, the
third of that name, and ending in that of the Catholic
King, Don Fernando the fifth, his successor in the ninth
descent. In the same manner it is observable that, the
first Morish King was called Mahomad, and the last had
the same name of Mahomad : which resembles what passed
in the empire of Constantinople, where the first and last
Emperors were called Constantines. Garibay, 1. 40, c.
43.

The same author mentions it as an extraordinary cir-
cumstance that, at one time lived in Castille, Arragon, and
Portugal, three Kings called Pedros, and whose fathers
were named Alonfos, who were also Kings at the same time.
L. 14, c. 35.

While Edward, Duke of York,* was declaring his title,
in the Chamber of the Peers, there happened a strange
chance, in the very same time, amongst the Commons in
the nether house, then there assembled: for a Crown,
which did hang in the middle of the same, to garnish a
branch to set lights upon, without touch of any creature, or
rigor of wind, suddenly fell down, and at the same time
also, fell down the Grown, which stood on the top of the
Castle of Dover : as a sign and prognostication, that the

* Father of Edward IV.

40 OMENS.

Crown of the realm should be divided and changed from
one line to another. Halle's Chronicle, H. 6. F. 181.

Anno 1506. Through great tempest of wind in Janu-
ary, Philip, King of Castille and his wife, were weather-
driven and landed at Falmouth. This tempest blew down
the Eagle of Brass from the spire of St. Paul's church in
London, and in the falling, the same eagle broke and
battered the black Eagle,* which hung for a sign in St.
Paul's Church-yard. Stow's Annals, 484.

The silver cross that was wont to be carried before
Cardinal Wolsey, fell out of its socket, and was like to have
knocked out the brains of one of the Bishop's servants. A
very little while after, came in a messenger, and arrested
the Cardinal, before he could get out of the house. See
Stow's Chronicle.

'Tis commonly reported, that before an heir of the
Cliftons, of Clifton in Nottinghamshire, dies, that a Stur-
geon is taken in the river Trent, by that place.

Thomas Flud, Esq. in Kent, told me that it is an old ob-
servation, which was pressed earnestly to King James I.
that he should not remove the Queen of Scots body from
Northamptonshire, where she was beheaded and interred :
for that it always bodes ill to the family, when bodies are

* The black Eagle is the cognizance of the house of Austria,
of which Philip was head.

OMENS. 41

removed from their graves. For some of the family will
die shortly after, as did Prince Henry, and I think Queen
Ann.

A little before the death of Oliver, the Protector, a
Whale came into the river Thames, and was taken at

Greenwich, feet long. 'Tis said Oliver was troubled

at it.

When I was a freshman at Oxford, 1642, 1 was wont to
go to Christ Church, to see King Charles I. at supper ;
where I once heard him say, " That as he was hawking in
" Scotland, he rode into the quarry, and found the covey
" of partridges falling upon the hawk ; and I do remember
" this expression further, viz. and I will swear upon the
" book 'tis true." When I came to my chamber, I told
this story to my tutor ; said he, that covey was London.

The bust of King Charles I. carved by Bernini, as it
was brought in a boat upon the Thames, a strange bird
(the like whereof the bargemen had never seen) dropped a
drop of blood, or blood-like upon it ; which left a stain not
to be wiped of. This bust was carved from a picture of
Sir Anthony Van Dyke's drawing : the sculptor found great
fault with the fore-head as most unfortunate. There was
a seam in the middle of his fore-head, (downwards) which
is a very ill sign in Metoposcopie.

Colonel Sharington Talbot was at Nottingham, when
King Charles I. did set up his standard upon the top of the

42 OMENS.

tower there. He told me, that the first night, the wind
blew it so, that it hung down almost horizontal; which
some did take to be an ill omen.

The day that the long Parliament began, 1641, the
Sceptre fell out of the figure of King Charles in wood, in
Sir Thomas Trenchard's hall at Wullich, in Dorset, as they
were at dinner in the parlour : Justice Hunt then dined
there.

The picture of Arch-Bishop Laud, in his closet, fell
down (the string broke) the day of the sitting of that Par-
liament. This is mentioned in Canterbury's doom by W.
Prynne.

The psalms for the eleventh day of the month, are 56,
57, 58, <fcc. On the eleventh day of one of the months in
the summer time, the citizens came tumultuously in great
numbers in boats and barges over against Whitehall, to
shew they would take the Parliament's part. The psalms
aforesaid, both for morning and evening service, are as
prophecies of the troubles that did ensue.

When the high court of justice was voted in the parlia-
ment house, as Berkenhead (the mace bearer) took up the
mace to carry it before the Speaker, the top of the mace
fell off. This was avowed to me by an eye witness then in the
house.

The head of King Charles I's. staff did fall off at his
trial : that is commonlv known.

OMENS. 43

The second lesson for the 30th of January in the calen-
dar before the common prayer, is concerning the trial of
Christ : which, when Bishop Duppa read, the King was
displeased with him, thinking he had done it of choice ;
but the Bishop cleared himself by the calendar, as is to be
seen.

King Charles II. was crowned at the very conjunction
of the sun and Mercury; Mercury being then in Corde
Solis. As the King was at dinner in Westminster Hall,
it thundered and lightened extremely. The cannons and
the thunder played together.

King Charles II. went by long sea to Portsmouth or
Plymouth, or both ; an extraordinary storm arose, which
carried him almost to France. Sir Jonas Moor (who was
then with his Majesty) gave me this account, and said,
that when they came to Portsmouth to refresh themselves,
they had not been there above half an hour, but the
weather was calm, and the sun shone : his Majesty put to
sea again, and in a little time they had the like tempestuous
weather as before.

Not long before the death of King Charles II. a Sparrow-
hawk escaped from the perch, and pitched on one of the iron
crowns of the white tower, and entangling its string in the
crown, hung by ; the heels and died. Not long after,
another hawk pitched on one of the crowns. From Sir
Edward Sherborne, Knight.

The Gloucester frigate cast away at the Lemanore, and

44 OMENS.

most of the men in it ; the Duke of York escaping in a
cock boat, anno 1682, May the 5th, on a Friday.

When King James II. was crowned, (according to the
ancient custom, the Peers go to the throne, and kiss the king)
the Crown was almost kissed off his head. An Earl did
set it right ; and as he came from the Abbey to West-
minster Hall, the Crown tottered extremely.

The Canopy (of cloth of gold) carried over the head of
King James II. by the Wardens of the Cinque Ports, was
torn by a puff of wind as he came to Westminster Hall ; it
hung down very lamentably : I saw it.

When King James II. was crowned, a signal was given
from Westminster Abbey to the Tower, where it was Sir
Edward Sherborne's post to stand to give order for firing
the cannons, and to hoist up the great flag with the King's
arms. It was a windy day, and the wind presently took
the flag half off, and carried it away into the Thames.
From Sir Edward Sherborne.

The top of his sceptre (Flower de Lys) did then fall.

Upon Saint Mark's day, after the coronation of King
James II. were prepared stately fire works on the Thames :
it hapened, that they took fire ah1 together, and it was so
dreadful, that several spectators leaped into the river,
choosing rather to be drowned than burned. In a yard by
the Thames, was my Lord Powys's coach and horses ; the
horses were so frightened by the fire works, that the coach

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man was not able to stop them, but ran away over one,
who with great difficulty recovered.

When King James II. was at Salisbury, anno 1688,
the Iron Crown upon the turret of the council house, was
blown off. — This has been often. confidently asserted by
persons who were then living.

In February, March, and April, two ravens built their
nests on the weather cock of the high steeple at Bakewell
in Derbyshire.

I did see Mr. Christopher Love beheaded on Tower
Hill, in a delicate clear day ; about half an hour after his
head was struck off, the clouds gathered blacker and
blacker ; and such terrible claps of thunder came that I
never heard greater.

'Tis reported, that the like happened after the execution
of Alderman Cornish, in Cheapside, October 23, 1685.

Anno 1643. As Major John Morgan of Wells, was
marching with the King's army into the west, he fell sick
of a malignant fever at Salisbury, and was brought dan-
gerously ill to my father's at Broad- Chalk, where he was
lodged secretly in a garret. There came a sparrow to the
chamber window, which pecked the lead of a certain pannel
only, and only one side of the lead of the lozenge, and
made one small hole in it. He continued this pecking and
biting the lead, during the whole time of his sickness ;
(which was not less than a month) when the Major went

46 OMENS.

away, the sparrow desisted, and came thither no more.
Two of the servants that attended the Major, and sober
persons, declared this for a certainty.

Sir Walter Long's (of Draycot in Wilts) widow, did
make a solemn promise to him on his death-bed, that she
would not marry after his decease, but not long after, one

Sir Fox, a very beautiful young gentleman did win

her love ; so that notwithstanding her promise aforesaid,
she married him : she married at South- Wraxhall, where
the picture of Sir Walter, hung over the parlour door, as

it doth now at Draycot. As Sir Fox led his bride

by the hand from the church, (which is near to the house)
into the parlour, the string of the picture broke, and the
picture fell on her shoulder, and cracked in the fall. (It
was painted on wood, as the fashion was in those days.)
This made her ladyship reflect on her promise, and drew
some tears from her eyes.*

See Sir Walter Ealeigh's history, book 4, chap. 2, §. 7.
The dogs of the French army, the night before the battle
of Novara, ran all to the Swisses army : the next day, the
Swisses obtained a glorious victory of the French. Sir
Walter Raleigh affirms it to be certainly true.

The last battle fought in the north of Ireland, between
the Protestants and the Papists, was in Glinsuly near

* This story may be true in all its details, except the name of
the lady, who was a daughter of Sir W. Long; she married
Somerset Eox, Esq. See Sandford's Geneal. Hist, of the Kings of
England, p. 344.

OMENS. 47

Letterkenny in the county of Donegall. Veneras, the
Bishop of Clogher, was General of the Irish army ; and
that of the Parliament army, Sir Charles Coot. They
pitched their tents on each side the river Suly, and the
Papists constantly persist in it to this very day, that the
night before the action,* a woman of uncommon stature,
all in white, appearing to the said Bishop, admonished him
not to cross the river first, to assault the enemy, but suffer
them to do it, whereby he should obtain the victory. That
if the Irish took the water first to move towards the English,
they should be put to a total rout, which came to pass.
Ocahan, and Sir Henry O'Neal, who were both killed there,
saw severally the same apparition, and dissuaded the
Bishop from giving the first onset, but could not prevail
upon him. In the mean time, I find nothing in this
revelation, that any common soldier might not conclude
without extraordinary means.

Near the same place, a party of the Protestants had been
surprized, sleeping by the Popish Irish, were it not for
several wrens that just wakened them by dancing and
pecking on the drums as the enemy were approaching.
For this reason the wild Irish mortally hate these birds, to
this day, calling them the Devil's servants, and killing
them wherever they catch them ; they teach their children

* So an apparition of a woman greater than ordinary, beckoned
to Julius Csesar to pass over the Rubicon, L. Flor. lib. 4 . Satyres
appeared to Alexander when he besieged Tyrus; Alexander
asked the divines, what was the signification of it 5 they told him
the meaning is plain, 2d rvpo^(i. e.) Tyre is thine. Alexander
took the town. Q. Curtius.

48 OMENS.

to thrust them full of thorns : you will see sometimes on
holidays, a whole parish running like mad men from hedge
to hedge a wren-hunting.

Anno 1679. After the discovery of the Popish plot, the
penal laws were put in execution against the Eoman
Catholics ; so that, if they did not receive the sacrament
according to the church of England, in their parish church,
they were to be severely proceeded against according to
law : Mr. Ployden, to avoid the penalty, went to his parish
church at Lasham, near Alton, in Hampshire : when Mr.
Laurence (the minister) had put the chalice into Mr.
Ployden's hand, the cup of it (wherein the wine was) fell
off. 'Tis true, it was out of order before ; and he had a
tremor in his hand. The communion was stopt by this
accident. This was attested to me by two neighbouring
ministers, as also by several gentlemen of the neighbourhood.

When King James II. first entered Dublin, after his
arrival from France, 1689, one of the gentlemen that bore
the mace before him, stumbled without any rub in his way,
or other visible occasion. The mace fell out of his hands,
and the little cross upon the crown thereof, stuck fast be-
tween two stones in the street. This is very well known
all over Ireland, and did much trouble King James him-
self, with many of his chief attendants.

The first Moors that were expelled Spain, were in num-
ber five thousand five hundred and fifty-five. They sailed
from Denia, October 2, 1609. H. Bleda. Expulsion
de Moriscos, p. 1000.

DREAMS.

"Ovap KO.I Aiog tot. Homer Iliad A.

DREAMS PROCEED FROM JOVE.

that has a mind to read of dreams, may
peruse Cicero de Divinatione, Hier. Cardani
Somniorum Synesiorum, lib. 4, and Moldina-
rius de Insomniis, (fee. I shall here mention
but little out of them, my purpose being chiefly to set down
some remarkable and divine dreams of some that I have had
the honor to be intimately acquainted with, persons worthy
of belief.

Cicero de Divinatione, lib. 1, Hannibalem, Cselius
scribit, cum Columnam auream, quce esset infano Junonis
Lacinice, auferre vellet, dubitaretque utrum ea solida esset,
an extrinsecus inaurata, perterebravisse ; cumque solidam
invenisset, statuissetque toller e: secundum quietem visam
esse ei Junonem prcedicere, ne id faceret ; minarique, si
id fecisset se curaturam, ut eum quoque oculum, quo bene
videret, amitteret ; idque ab homine acuto non esse neglec-
tum ; itaque ex eo auro quod exterebratum esset, buculam
E

50 DREAMS.

curasse faciendam, <Sf earn in summa columna collocavisse.

i. e.

Ccelius writes, that Hannibal, when he had a mighty
mind to take away a gold pillar, that was in the Temple of
Juno Lacinia, being in doubt with himself, whether it was
solid massive gold, or only gilt, or thinly plated over on the
out side, bored it through. When he had found it to be
solid, and fully designed to have it carried off; Juno ap-
peared to him in his sleep, and forewarned him against
what he was about, threatening him withal, that if he per-
sisted and did it, she would take care that he should lose
the eye, that he saw perfectly well with, as he had done
the other.

The great man, it seems, was too wise to slight and
neglect this warning ; nay, he even took care to have a
ring made of the very gold, that had been bored out of it,
and placed it on the top of the pillar.

Cum duo quidam Arcades familiares iter una face-
rent, fyMegaram venissent, alterum ad cauponem divertisse;
ad Jiospitem alterum. Qui, ut ccenati quiescerent, concubia
nocte visum esse in somnis ei qui erat in hospitio, ilium
alterum orare ut subveniret, quod sibi a caupone interitus
pararetur ; eum primo perterritum somnio surrexisse ;
deinde cum se colligisset, idque visum pro nihilo habendum
esse duxisset, recubuisse ; -turn ei dormienti eundem ilium
visum esse rogare, ut quoniam sibi vivo non subvenisset,
mortem suam ne inultam esse pateretur; se interfectum

DREAMS. 51

in plaustrum d can/pone esse conjectum, fy supra stercus
injectum ; petere, ut mane ad portum adesset, priusquam
plaustrum ex oppido exiret. Hoc vero somnio commotum
mane bubulco presto adportamfuisse, qucesisse ex eo, quid
esset in plaustro ; ilium perterritum fugisse, mortuum
erutum esse, cauponem re patefactd pcenas dedisse. Quid
hoc somnio did divinius potest 1 i. e.

As two certain Arcadians, intimate companions, were
travelling together, it so happened, that, when they came
to Megara, one of them went to an inn, and the other to a
friend's house. Both had supped at their respective places,
and were gone to bed ; when lo ! he, that was at his
friend's house, dreamt, that his companion came to him,
and begged of him for Heaven's sake to assist him, for
that the inn-keeper had contrived a way to murder him :
frightened at first out of his sleep, he rose up ; but soon
afterward coming a little better to himself, he thought,
upon recollection, there was no heed to be given to the
vision, and went very quietly to bed again. But as soon
as he was got into his second sleep, the same vision repeated
the visit, but the form of his petition was quite altered.
He beseeched him, that, since he had not come to his
assistance, while he was among the living, he would not
suffer his death however, to go unrevenged. Told him
that as soon as he was murdered, he was tossed by the inn-
keeper into a waggon, and had a little straw thrown over
his corpse. He entreated him to be ready very early at
the door before the waggon was to go out of town. This
dream truly disturbed him it seems very much, and made

52 DREAMS.

him get up very early : he nicked the time, and met with
the waggoner just at the very door, and asked him what he
had in his cart. The fellow run away frightened and con-
founded. The dead hody was pulled out of it, and the
whole matter coming plainly to light, the inn-keeper suf-
fered for the crime. — What is there that one can call more
divine than a dream like this ?

Somnium de Simonide, qui, cum ignotum quendam

projectum mortuum vidisset, eumque humavisset, haberet-
que in ammo navem conscendere, moneri visus est, ne id
facer et, ab eo, quern, sepultum affecerat : si navigasset, earn
naufragio esseperituram : itaque Simondem rediisse peri-
isse cceteros, qui turn navigassent.

The dream of Simonides. This person, when he

saw a certain hody thrown dead upon the shore, though a
stranger, caused him to he huried. Much ahout that time
he had it in his head to go on ship -board, but dreamt that
he had warning given him by the man he had got to be
interred, not to go ; that if he went, the ship would in-
fallibly be cast away. Upon this Simonides returned, and
every soul of them besides that went on board was lost.

Cicero de Divinatione, lib. 2. Somnium, Alexandri.
Qui, cum, Ptoloma3us familiaris ejus, in prcelio, telo vene-
nato ictus esset, eoque vulnere summo cum dolor e moreretur,
Alexander assidens somno est consopitus; turn secundum

»

quietem visus ei dicitur draco is, quern mater Olympias
alebat, radiculam ore ferre fy simul dicere quo ilia loci

DREAMS. 53

nasceretur neque is longe aberat ab eo loco : ejus autem esse
vim tantam, ut Ptolomseum facile sanaret. Cum Alex-
ander experrectus narrasset amicis somnium, emisisse qui
illam radiculam qucererent. Qua inventd, <$f Ptolomseus
sanatus dicitur, fy multi milites, qui erant eodem yenere
teli vulnerati.

(i. e.) The dream of Alexander, when his friend Ptolemy
was wounded in battle, by an envenomed dart, and died of the
wound, in all the extremities of pain and anguish ; Alex-
ander setting by him, and wearied out and quite fatigued,
fell into a profound sleep. In this sleep, that dragon is
reported to have appeared to him, which was bred up by
his mother Olympias, carrying a little root in his mouth
and to have told him in what spot of ground it grew, (nor
was it far from that very place) and told him withal it
seems, that such was the force, efficacy, and virtue of it,
that it would work an easy cure upon Ptolomy. When
Alexander waked, he told his friends the dream, and sent
some out in quest of this little root. The root (as story
says) was found, and Ptolomy was healed, so were many
soldiers likewise, that had been wounded with the same
kind of darts.

Cardanus Somniorum Synesiorum, lib. 4, chap. 2.
Narrat Plinius 35 lib. Nat. Hist, vir ab omnia supersti-
tione alienissimus, Historiam Tiujusmodi. " Nuper cujus-
" dam militantis in Prsetorio mater vidit in quiete, ut ra-
" dicem sylvestris Rosae (quam Cynorrhodon vocant)
" blanditam sibi aspectu pridie in Fruteto, mitteret filio

54 DREAMS.

" bibendam : In Lusitania res gerebatur, Hispanise, prox-
" ima parte : casuque accidit, ut milite a morsu Canis
" incipiente aquas expavescere superveniret epistola orantis
" ut pareret religion! ; servatusque est ex insperato, &
" postea quisquis auxilium simile tentavit."

i. e. In his natural history, Pliny, a man the most averse
to superstition, relates to us the following passage. Lately,
the mother of one of the guards, who attend upon the
General, was admonished by a vision in her sleep, to send
her son a draught composed of the decoction of the root of
a wild rose, (which they call Cynorrhodon) with the agree-
able look whereof she had been mightily taken the day
before, as she was passing through a coppice. The seat of
the war at that time lay in Portugal, in that part of it next
adjoining to Spain, that a soldier, beginning to apprehend
mighty dangerous consequences from the bite of a dog, the
letter came unexpectedly from her, entreating him to pay
a blind obedience to this superstition. He did so, and was
preserved beyond all expectation ; and every body after-
wards had recourse to the same remedy.

Ibid. Galeni tria Somnia. Tertium magis dignum

miraculo, cum bis per somnium admonitus, ut arteriam
secaret, quce inter pollicem fy indicem est, idque agens
liberatus sit a diuturno dolore, quo infestabatur ed in
parte, qua septo transverse jecur jungitur, idque in libri
de sectione vencefine testatus est, Magno certe exemplo,
quod tantus vir in medicina earn adhibuerit somniofidem,
ut in seipso periculum vitce subierit, in arte proprid.

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Deinde probitatem admiror, ut quopotuerit solertia ingenii
sibi inventum ascribere, Deo cui debebatur, rediderit.
Dignus vel hoc solo vir immortalitate nominis, ty librorum
suorum.

Galen's three dreams. The third more worthy of being
called a miracle, was, when being twice admonished in his
sleep, to cut the artery that lies between the fore finger and
the thumb, and doing it accordingly, he was freed from a
continual daily pain with which he was afflicted in that
part, where the liver is joined to the midriff; and this he
has testified at the end of his book of Venesection. 'Tis
certainly a very great example, when a man so great as he
was in the medicinal art, put so much confidence in a
dream as to try experiments upon himself ; where he was
to run the risque of his life, in his own very art. I cannot
help but admire his probity in the next place, that where
he might have arrogated the merit of the invention to him-
self, and placed it wholly to the account of the subtilty and
penetration of his own genius, he attributed it to God, to
whom it was due. In this alone did the man well deserve
to purchase an immortality to his name and his writings.

In his fourth book, chap. 4. De Eocemplis propriis,
he owns the solution of some difficult problems in Algebra,
to his dreams,

Plinii, Nat. Hist. lib. 22, chap. 17. " Verna carus
" Pericli Atheniensium Principi, cum is in arce templum
" sedificaret, repsissetque super altitudinem fastigii, & inde

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" cecidisset, hac herba (Parthenio) dicitur sanatus, mon-
" strata PericH somnio a Minerva. Quare Parthenium
" vocari ccepta est, assignaturque ei Dea3."

Pliny's Natural History, book 22, chap. 17. "A little
Home-bred Slave, that was a darling favourite to Pericles,
Prince of the Athenians, and who, while a temple was
building in the Prince's palace, had climed up to the very
top of the pinnacle, and tumbled down from that prodigious
height ; is said to have been cured of his fall by the herb
Parthenium, or mug-wort, which was shewn to Pericles in
a dream, by Minerva. From hence it originally took the
name of Parthenium, and is attributed to that Goddess."

Augustinus, Cui etiam prater sanctitatem, plena fides
adhiberi potest, duo narrat inter reliqua somnia admiranda.
Primum, quod cum quidam mortuo nuper patre venaretur
tanquam de pecunia quam pater illi ex chirographo de-
buisset, dum incastus viveret, hac causa nocte quadam
umbram patris videt, qua3 ilium admonuit de persoluta
pecunia & ubi chirographum esset repositum. Cum sur-
rexisset, invenit chirographum loco eo quern umbra paterna
docuerat, liberatusque est ab injusto petitore.

Saint Austin, to whom even, besides his sanctity, we
owe an entire credit, tells among others, two. very wonder-
ful dreams. The first is, when a person was arrested by one,
as for a certain sum of money, which his father had owed
him by a note under his own hand, while he led a lewd
debauched life, saw the ghost of his father one night, upon

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this very account, which told him of the money being paid,
and where the acquittance lay. When he got up in the
morning, he went and found the acquittance in that very
place that his father's ghost had directed him to, and so was
freed from the litigious suit of one that made unjust de-
mands upon him.

Alterum adhuc magis mirum.

Prsestantius, vir quidam, a Philosopho petierat duhita-
tionem quandam solvi; quod ille pernegavit. Nocte se-
quente,tametsi vigilaret PraBstantius, vidit sibi Philosophum
assistere, ac duhitationem solvere, moxque abire. Cum die
sequent! obviam Prsestantius eundem habuisset Philoso-
phum, rogat, Cur cum pridie rogatus nolluisset solvere illam
questionem, intempesta nocte, non rogatus, <fc venisset ad
se <fe dubitationem aperuisset. Cui Philosophus. Non
quidem ego adveni sed somnians visus sum tibi hoc Offi-
cium prsestare.

The other is much more wonderful still.

A certain gentleman named Prestantius, had been en-
treating a Philosopher to solve him a doubt, which he
absolutely refused to do. The night following, although
Prestantius was broad awake, he saw the Philosopher stand-
ing full before him, who just explained his doubts to him,
and went away the moment after he had done. When Pre-
stantius met the Philosopher the next day, he asks him why,
since no entreaties could prevail with him the day before,
to answer his question, he came to him unasked, and at an

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unseasonable time of night, and opened every point to his
satisfaction. To whom thus the Philosopher. " Upon
my word it was not me that came to you ; but in a dream
I thought my own self that I was doing you such a ser-
vice."

The plague raging in the army of the Emperor Charles
V. he dreamt, that the decoction of the root of the dwarf-
thistle (a mountain plant since called the Caroline thistle)
would cure that disease. See Gerrard's Herbal, who tells
us this.

In Queen Mary's time, there was only one congregation
of Protestants in London, to the number of about three-
hundred, one was the deacon to them, and kept the list of
their names : one of that congregation did dream, that a
messenger, (Queen's Officer) had seized on this deacon,
and taken his list ; the fright of the dream awaked him :
he fell asleep and dreamt the same perfect dream again.
In the morning before he went out of his chamber, the
deacon came to him and then he told him his dream, and
said, 'twas a warning from God ; the deacon slighted his

advice, as favouring of superstition ; but was so urgent

with him that he prevailed with him to deposite the list in
some other hand, which he did that day. The next day,
the Queen's officer attacked him, and searched (in vain)
for the list, which had it been found, would have brought
them all to the flame. Foxe's Martyrology.

When Arch Bishop Abbot's mother (a poor clothworker's

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wife in Guilford) was with child of him, she did long for a
Jack, and she dreamt that if she should eat a Jack, her
son in her belly should be a great man. She arose early
the next morning and went with her pail to the river-side
(which runneth by the house, now an ale-house, the sign
of the three mariners) to take up some water, and in the
water in the pail she found a good jack, which she dressed,
and eat it all, or very near. Several of the best inhabitants
of Guilford were invited (or invited themselves) to the
christening of the child ; it was bred up a scholar in the
town, and by degrees, came to be Arch Bishop of Canter-
bury.

In the life of Monsieur Periesk, writ by Gassendus, it is
said, that Monsieur Periesk, who had never been at Lon-
don, did dream that he was there, and as he was walking
in a great street there, espied in a goldsmith's glass desk,
an antique coin, he could never meet with. (I think an
Otho.) When he came to London, walking in (I think)
Cheap-side, he saw such a shop, and remembered the
countenance of the goldsmith in his dream, and found the
coin desired, in his desk. See his life.

When Doctor Hamey (one of the physicians college in
London) being a young man, went to travel towards Padoa,
he went to Dover, (with several others) and shewed his pass,
as the rest did, to the Governor there. The Governor
told him, that he must not go, but must keep him prisoner.
The Doctor desired to know for what reason ? how he had
transgrest ? well it was his will to have it so. The pac-

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quet-boat hoisted sail in the evening (which was very clear),
and the Doctor's companions in it. There ensued a ter-
rible storm, and the pacquet-boat and all the passengers
were drowned : the next day the sad news was brought to
Dover. The Doctor was unknown to the Governor, both
by name and face ; but the night before, the Governor had
the perfect vision in a dream, of Doctor Hamey, who came
to pass over to Calais ; and that he had a warning to stop
him. This the Governor told the Doctor the next day.
The Doctor was a pious, good man, and has several times
related this story to some of my acquaintance.

My Lady Seymour dreamt, that she found a nest, with
nine finches in it. And so many children she had by the
Earl of Winchelsea, whose name is Finch.

The Countess of Cork (now Burlington) being at Dublin,
dreamt, that her father, (the Earl of Cumberland) who was
then at York, was dead. He died at that time.

'Tis certain, that several had monitory dreams of the
conflagration of London.

Sir Christopher Wren, being at his father's house, anno
1651, at Knahill in Wilts, (a young Oxford scholar) dreamt,
that he saw a fight in a great market-place, which he
knew not ; where some were flying, and others pursuing ;
and among those that fled, he saw a kinsman of his, who
went into Scotland to the King's army. They heard in
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whereabouts he was, they could not tell. The next night
his kinsman came to his father at Knahill, and was the
first that brought the news of the fight at Worcester.

When Sir Christopher Wren was at Paris, about 1671,
he was ill and feverish, made but little water, and had a
pain in his reins. He sent for a physician, who advised
him to be let blood, thinking he had a plurisy : but bleed-
ing much disagreeing with his constitution, he would defer
it a day longer : that night he dreamt, that he was in a
place where palm-trees grew, (suppose ^Egypt) and that a
woman in a romantic habit, reached him dates. The next
day he sent for dates, which cured him of the pain of his
reins.

Since, I have learned that dates are an admirable medi-
cine for the stone, from old Captain Tooke of K .

Take six or ten date-stones, dry them in an oven, pulverize
and scarce them ; take as much as will lie on a six-pence,
in a quarter of a pint of white wine fasting, and at four in
the afternoon : walk or ride an hour after : in a week's time
it will give ease, and in a month cure. If you are at the
Bath, the Bath water is better than white wine to take it
in.

Sir John Hoskin's Lady, when she lay in of her eldest
son, had a swelling on one side of her belly, the third day
when the milk came, and obstructions : she dreamt that
syrup of elderberries and distilled water of wormwood would
do her good, and it did so ; she found ease in a quarter of

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an hour after she had taken it. I had this account from
her Ladyship's own mouth.

Captain Wingate told me, that Mr. Edmund

Gunter, of Gresham College, did cast his nativity, when
about seventeen or eighteen years old ; hy which he did
prognosticate that he should he in danger to lose his life
for treason. Several years before the civil wars broke out,
he had dreamt that he was to be put to death before a great
castle, which he had never seen ; which made a strong
impression in his memory. In anno 1642, he did oppose
the church ceremonies, and was chosen a member of Par-
liament, then was made a Captain, and was taken prisoner
at Edge Hill, by Prince Rupert, and carried to Kenilworth
Castle, where he was tried by a council of war, and con-
demned to die: but they did better consider of it, and
spared his life ; for that he being so considerable a person,
might make an exchange for some of the King's party :*
and he was exchanged for the right Honourable Montague,
Earl of Lindsey (heir of the General.) Since the restora-
tion, he was made one of the commissioners of the excise
office in London. He did protest that Kenilworth castle
was the very castle he saw in his dream.

Sir Roger L'Estrange was wont to divertise himself with
cocking in his father's (Sir Hammond L'Estrange's) park ;
he dreamt that there came to him in such a place of the

* Captain Wingate was a prisoner in Oxford, after Edgehill
fight, 1642.

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park, a servant, who brought him news, that his father
was taken very ill. The next day going to his usual
recreation, he was resolved for his dream sake to avoid that
way ; but his game led him to it, and in that very place
the servant came and brought him the ill news according
to his dream.

Mr. Edmund Halley, R. S. S. was carried on with a
strong impulse to take a voyage to St. Hellens, to make
observations of the southern constellations, being then
about twenty-four years old. Before he undertook his
voyage, he dreamt that he was at sea, sailing towards that
place, and saw the prospect of it from the ship in his dream,
which he declared to the Royal Society, to be the perfect
representation of that island, even as he had it really when
he approached to it.

A Gentlewoman dreamt that a pultess of blew corants,
would cure her sore throat; and it did so. She was a
pious woman, and affirmed it to be true.

Anno 1690. One, in Ireland, dreamed of a brother or
near relation of his, (who lived at Amesbury in Wiltshire)
that he saw him riding on the downs, and that two thieves
robbed him and murdered him. The dream awaked him,
he fell asleep again and had the like dream. He wrote to
his relation an account of it, and described the thieves
complexion, stature and cloaths ; and advised him to take
care of himself. Not long after he had received this
monitory letter, he rode towards Salisbury, and was robbed

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and murdered ; and the murderers were discovered by this
letter, and were executed. They hang in chains on the
road to London.

'Twas revealed to a King of Scots, that if he drank of
the water of Muswell, he would be cured. After great
enquiry they heard of such a place, not far from Hornsey
in Middlesex. See Weever's Funeral Monuments of the
Well. John Norden's Description of Middlesex. Here
was afterwards founded a religious house for Austin
Monks: since it belonged to Sir Thomas How, and in
1677, was pulled down and the materials sold. Anciently
the Kings of Scotland were feudatory to the Kings of
England, and did their homage every Christmas day. They
had several lodges belonging to them for their reception in
their journey ; as at Huntingdon, &c. See Caxton's
Chronicle concerning this.

The water of this spring is drank for some distempers
still.

Somnium ex Euberned portd.

Mrs. Cl , of S , in the county of S , had a

beloved daughter, who had been a long time ill, and re-
ceived no benefit from her physicians. She dreamed that
a friend of hers deceased, told her, that if she gave her
daughter a drench of yew pounded, that she would recover ;
she gave her the drench, and it killed her. Whereupon
she grew almost distracted : her chamber maid to comple-
ment her, and mitigate her grief, said surely that could

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not kill her, she would adventure to take the same herself;
she did so, and died also. This was about the year 1670,
or 1671 . I knew the family.

A Gentlewoman, of my acquaintance, dreamed, that if
she slept again, the house would he in danger to he robbed.
She kept awake, and anon thieves came to break open the
house, but were prevented.

J. H. Esq.*/ being at West-Lavington with the Earl of
Abbingdon\ dreamed, December the 9th, his mother rose
up in mourning : and anon the Queen appeared in mourn-
ing. He told his dream the next morning to my Lord,
and his Lordship imparted it to me (then there) Tuesday,
December 11 . In the evening came a messenger, post from
London, to acquaint Mr. H. that his mother was danger-
ously ill : he went to London the next day ; his mother
lived but about eight days longer. On Saturday, Decem-
ber 15, the Queen was taken ill, which turned to the small
pox, of which she died, December 28, about two o'clock in
the morning.

Sir Thomas White, Alderman of London, was a very
rich man, charitable and public spirited. He dreamt that
he had founded a college at a place where three elms grow
out of one root. He went to Oxford, probably with that
intention, and discovering some such tree near Gloucester

* J. H. Against these initials there is a note in the copy of the
first edition already referred to, in these words—" James Herbert :
he saies he was never there.5'

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Hall, he began to repair it, with a design to endow it. But
walking afterwards by the Convent where the Bernardines
formerly lived, he plainly saw an elm with three large
bodies rising out of the same root : he forth with purchased
the ground, and endowed his college there, as it is at this
day, except the additions which Arch-bishop Laud made,
near the outside of which building in the garden belonging
to the president, the tree is still to be seen. He made this
discovery about the year 1557.

There are millions of such dreams too little taken notice
of, but they have the truest dreams whose IXth house is
well dignified, which mine is not : but must have some
monitory dreams. The Germans are great observers of
them. It is said in the life of Vavasor Powell, that he
was a great observer of dreams, (p. 17 and 114, of his life)
that he had many warnings from them, that God had spoken
to himself and others by them ; for warning, instruction, or
reproof. And it is also there averred, that Angels had,
appeared to him. See p. 8, of his life.

In Mr. Walton's life of Sir Hen. Wotton, there is a re-
markable story of the discovery of stolen plate in Oxford,
by a dream which his father had at Bocton-Malherbe, in
Kent. See in Ath. $ Fasti. Oxon. vol. i. p. 351.

William Penn, proprietor of Pensylvania, told me, that
he went with his mother on a visit to Admiral Dean's wife,
who lived then in Petty-France ; the Admiral was then at
sea. She told them, that, the night before, she had a per-

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feet dream of her husband, whom she saw walking on the
deck, and giving directions, and that a cannon bullet struck
his arm into his side. This dream did much discompose
her, and within forty-eight hours she received news of the
fight at sea, and that her husband was killed in the very
manner aforesaid.

Sir Berkley Lucy sold the fabric of the chapel of Net-
ley Abbey, to one Taylor, a carpenter of Southampton,
who took off the roof, and pulled down great part of the
walls. During the time that this Taylor was in treaty
for the chapel, he was much disturbed in his sleep with
frightful dreams, and as some say, apparitions ; and one
night he dreamt that a large stone, out of one of the win-
dows of the chapel, fell upon him and killed him. The
undertaker, though staggered with these intimations,
finished his agreement, and soon after fell to work on
pulling down the chapel ; but he was not far advanced in
it, when, endeavouring with a pickax to get out some stones
at the bottom of the west wall, in which there was a large
window, the whole body of the window fell down suddenly
upon him, and crushed him to pieces. Willis's Mitred
Abbeys, vol. 2, p, 205, 6.

Jan. 1774. One Daniel Healy, of Donaghmore, in Ire-
land, having three different times dreamed that money lay
concealed under a large stone in a field near where he
lived, procured some workmen to assist him in removing
it, and when they had dug as far as the foundation, it fell
suddenly and killed Healy on the spot.

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March 25, 1779. This morning A. B. dreamt that he
saw his friend C. D. throw himself from a bridge into a
river, and that he could not be found. The same evening,
reading Dr. Geddes's account of Ignatius Loyola, p. 105-
5th tract, v. 3, he met with the following particular of him ;
as he was going into Bononia, he tumbled off a bridge into
a moat full of mud; this circumstance was quite new.
Every tittle of the above is strictly true, as the writer will
answer it to God. — To what can be attributed so singular
an impression upon the imagination when sleeping ?

Comical History of three Dreamers.

Three companions, of whom two were Tradesmen and
Townsmen, and the third a Villager, on the score of devo-
tion, went on pilgrimage to a noted sanctuary ; and as
they went on their way, their provision began to fail them,
insomuch that they had nothing to eat, but a little flour,
barely sufficient to make of it a very small loaf of bread.
The tricking townsmen seeing this, said between them-
selves, we have but little bread, and this companion of
ours is a great eater ; on which account it is necessary we
should think how we may eat this little bread without him.
When they had made it and set it to bake, the tradesmen
seeing in what manner to cheat the countryman, said : let us
all sleep, and let him that shall have the most marvellous
dream betwixt all three of us, eat the bread. This bargain
being agreed upon, and settled between them, they laid
down to sleep. The countryman, discovering the trick of
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himself, and turned again to sleep. In a while, one of the
tradesmen, as frightened by a marvellous dream, began to
get up, and was asked by his companion, why he was so
frightened ? he answered, I am frightened and dreadfully
surprized by a marvellous dream : it seemed to me that
two Angels, opening the gates of Heaven, carried me be-
fore the throne of God with great joy : his companion said :
this is a marvellous dream, but I have seen another more
marvellous, for I saw two Angels, who carried me over the
earth to Hell. The countryman hearing this, made as if
he slept ; but the townsmen, desirous to finish their trick,
awoke him ; and the countryman, artfully as one surprized,
answered : Who are these that call me ? They told him,
we are thy companions. He asked them : How did you
return ? They answered : We never went hence ; why
d'ye talk of our return ? The countryman replied : It
appeared to me that two Angels, opening the gates of
Heaven, carried one of you before our Lord God, and
dragged the other over the earth to Hell, and I thought you
never would return hither, as I have never heard that any
had returned from Paradise, nor from Hell, and so I arose
and eat the bread by myself. — From an old edition of
Lazarlllo de Tormes.

APPAKITIONS.

YNTHIA, Propertius's mistress, did appear
to him after her death, with the beryl-ring
on her finger. See Propertius, eleg. 7.
lib. 4.

Sunt aliquid manes, letum non omniafinit,

Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.
Cynthia namque meo visa est incumbere ftdcro,

Murmur ad eoctremce nuper humata vice :
Quum mihi ab exequiis somnus penderet amaris.

Et quererer lecti frigida regna mei.
Eosdem habuit secum, quibus est data, capillos,

Eosdem oculos. Lateri vestis adusta fuit.
Et solittim digito beryllon adederat ignis,

Summaque Lethceus triverat ora liquor :
Spirantisque animos, fy vocem misit, at illi

Pollicibus fragiles increpuere manus.

Thus translated by Mr. DART.

Manes exist, when we in death expire,
And the pale shades escape the funeral fire ;
For Cynthia's form beside my curtain's stood,
Lately interr'd near Aniens' murm'ring flood.

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Thoughts of her funeral would not let me close
These eyes, nor seek the realms of still repose ;
Around her shoulders wav'd her flowing hair,
As living Cynthia's tresses soft and fair :
Beauteous her eyes as those once fir'd my breast,
Her snowy bosom bare, and sing'd her breast.
Her beryl-ring retain'd the fiery rays,
Spread the pale flame, and shot the funeral blaze ;
As late stretch'd out the bloodless spectre stood,
And her dead lips were wet with Lethe's flood.
She breath'd her soul, sent forth her voice aloud,
And ehaf 'd her hands as in some angry mood.

St. Augustin affirms that he did once see a satyr or /
daemon.

The antiquities of Oxford, tell us, that St. Edmund,
Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, did sometimes converse with
an angel or nymph, at a spring without St. Clement's
parish near Oxford; as Numa Pompilius did with the
nymph Egeria. This well was stopped up since Oxford
was a garrison.

Charles the simple, King of France, as he was hunting
in a forest, and lost his company, was frighted to simplicity
by an apparition.

/ ) Philip Melancthon writes that the apparition of a vene- •:
rable person came to him in his study, and bade him to

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warn his friend Grynseus to depart from him as soon as he
could, or else the inquisitors would seize on him ; which
monitory dream saved Grynseus's life.

w Mr. Fynes Moryson, in his travels, saith, that when he/4
was at Prague, the apparition of his father came to him ;
and at that very time his father died.

In the life of JOHN DONNE, Dean of St. Paul's, London,
writ hy Isaak Walton.

At this time of Mr. Donne's, and his wife's living in Sir j
Eobert Drury's house in Drury-Lane, the Lord Haye was
hy King James, sent upon a glorious embassy, to the then
French King Henry the IV. and Sir Kobert put on a
sudden resolution to accompany him to the French Court,
and to be present at his audience there. And Sir Robert
put on as sudden a resolution, to subject Mr. Donne to be
his companion in that journey ; and this desire was sud-
denly made known to his wife, who was then with child,
and otherwise under so dangerous a habit of body, as to her
health, that she protested an unwillingness to allow him
any absence from her ; saying her divining soul boded her
some ill in his absence, and therefore desired him not to
leave her. This made Mr. Donne lay aside all thoughts
of his journey, and really to resolve against it. But Sir
Kobert became restless in his persuasions for it, and Mr.
Donne was so generous as to think he had sold his liberty,
when he had received so many charitable kindnesses from
him, and told his wife so ; who, therefore, with an unwil-

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ling willingness, did give a faint consent to the journey,
which was proposed to be but for two months : within a
few days after this resolve, the Ambassador, Sir Eobert,
and Mr. Donne, left London, and were the twelfth day got
safe to Paris. Two days after their arrival there, Mr.
Donne was left alone in the room, where Sir Kobert and
he, with some others, had dined : to this place Sir Eobert
returned within half an hour, and as he left, so he found
Mr. Donne alone, but in such an extacy, and so altered
as to his looks, as amazed Sir Robert to behold him, inso-
much as he earnestly desired Mr. Donne to declare what
had befallen him in the short time of his absence ? to which
Mr. Donne was not able to make a present answer, but
after a long and perplexed pause, said, " I have seen
" a dreadful vision since I saw you : I have seen my dear
" wife pass twice by me through this room, with her
" hah* hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child
" in her arms ; this I have seen since I saw you." To
which Sir Robert replied, " Sure Sir, you have slept since
" I saw you, and this is the result of some melancholy
" dream, which I desire you to forget, for you are now
" awake." To which Mr. Donne's reply was, " I cannot
" be surer that I now live, than that I have not slept since
" I saw you, and am sure that at her second appearing, she
" stopt and lookt me in the face and vanished."- — Rest and
sleep had not altered Mr. Donne's opinion the next day,
for he then affirmed this vision with a more deliberate, and
so confirmed a confidence, that he inclined Sir Robert to a
faint belief, that the vision was true, fit is truly said, that
desire and doubt have no rest, and it proved so witmSir

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Jlobert^for he)mmediately sent a servant to Drury-House,
with a charge to hasten back and bring him word whether
Mrs. Donne were alive ? and if alive, in what condition she
was as to her health. The twelfth day the messenger re-
turned with this account — that he found and left Mrs.
Donne very sad, sick in her bed, and that, after a long and
dangerous labour, she had been delivered of a dead child :
and upon examination, the abortion proved to be the same
day, and about the very hour, that Mr. Donne affirmed he
saw her pass by him in his chamber.

Henry IV. King of France, not long before he was
stabbed by Kavillac, as he was hunting in the forest (I
think of Fontaine-Bleau), met in a thicket, the Gros
Venure, who said to him, Demandez vom? or Entendez
vous? He could not tell whether of the two.

There is a tradition (which I have heard from persons
of honour), that as the Protector Seymour and his Dutchess
were walking in the gallery at Sheen (in Surrey), both of
them did see a hand with a bloody sword come out of the
wall. He was afterwards beheaded.

v Sir John Burroughes being sent envoy to the Emperor

by King Charles I. did take his eldest son Caisho Bur-
roughes along with him, and taking his journey through
Italy, left his son at Florence, to learn the language ;
where he having an intrigue with a beautiful courtisan
(mistress of the Grand Duke), their familiarity became so
public, that it came to the Duke's ear, who took a resolu-

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tion to have him murdered ; but Caisho having had timely
notice of the Duke's design, by some of the English there,
immediately left the city without acquainting his mistress
with it, and came to England ; whereupon the Duke being
disappointed of his revenge, fell upon his mistress in most
reproachful language ; she on the other side, resenting the
sudden departure of her gallant, of whom she was most
passionately enamoured, killed herself. At the same mo-
ment that she expired, she did appear to Caisho, at his
lodgings in London; Colonel Kernes* was then in bed
with him, who saw her as well as he ; giving him an ac-
count of her resentments of his ingratitude to her, in leav-
ing her so suddenly, and exposing her to the fury of the
Duke, not omitting her own tragical exit, adding withal,
that he should be slain in a duel, which accordingly hap-
pened; and thus she appeared to him frequently, even
when his younger brother (who afterwards was Sir John)
was in bed with him. As often as she did appear, he
would cry out with great shrieking, and trembling of his
body, as anguish of mind, saying, O God ! here she comes,
she comes, and at this rate she appeared till he was killed ;
she appeared to him the morning before he was killed.
Some of my acquaintance have told me, that he was one of
the most beautiful men in England, and very valiant, but

proud and blood-thirsty.

/

\This story was so common, that iKing Charles I. sent v/

* This Colonel Reraes was a Parliament man, and did belong
to the wardrobe, tempore Caroli II.

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for Caisho Burroughes's father, whom he examined as to
the truth of the matter ; who did (together with Colonel
Eemes) aver the matter of fact to be true, so that the
King thought it worth his while to send to Florence, to
enquire at what time this unhappy lady killed herself; it
was found to he the same minute that she first appeared to
Caisho, being in bed with Colonel Kernes. This relation
I had from my worthy friend Mr. Monson, who had it
from Sir John's own mouth, brother of Caisho ; he had
also the same account from his own father, who was inti-
mately acquainted with old Sir John Burroughes and both
his sons, and says, as often as Caisho related this, he wept
bitterly.

Anno 1647, the Lord Mohun's son and hen* (a gallant j $~^
gentleman, valiant, and a great master of fencing and
horsemanship), had a quarrel with Prince Griffin ; there
was a challenge, and they were to fight on horse-back in
Chelsea-fields in the morning : Mr. Mohun went accord-
ingly to meet him ; but about Ebury-Farm, he was met
by some who quarrelled with him and pistoled him ; it was
believed, by the order of Prince Griffin ; for he was sure,
that Mr. Mohun, being so much the better horseman, &c.
would have killed him, had they fought.

In James-street, in Covent-Garden, did then lodge a (5°*
gentlewoman, a handsome woman, but common, who was
Mr. Mohun's sweet heart. Mr. Mohun was murdered
about ten o'clock in the morning ; and at that very time,
his mistress being in bed, saw Mr. Mohun come to her

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bed-side, draw the curtain, look upon her and go away ;
she called after him, but no answer : she knocked for her
maid, asked her for Mr. Mohun ; she said, she did not see
him, and had the key of her chamber-door in her pocket.
This account my friend aforesaid, had from the gentlewo-
man's own mouth, and her maid's.

A parallel story to this, is, that Mr. Brown, (brother-
in-law to the Lord Coningsby) discovered his being
murdered to several. His phantom appeared to his sis-
ter and her maid in Fleet-street, about the time he was
killed in Herefordshire, which was about a year since,
1693.

Sir Walter Long of Draycot, (grandfather of Sir James
Long) had two wives ; the first a daughter of Sir Thomas
Packington in Worcestershire ; by whom he had a son :
his second wife was a daughter of Sir John Thynne of
Long-Leat ; by whom he had several sons and daughters.
The second wife did use much artifice to render the son by
the first wife, (who had not much Promethean fire) odious
to his father ; she would get her acquaintance to make him
drunk ; and then expose him in that condition to his father ;
in fine, she never left off her attempts, till she got Sir
Walter to disinherit him. She laid the scene for doing
this at Bath, at the assizes, where was her brother Sir
Egrimond Thynne, an eminent Serjeant at law, who drew
the writing ; and his clerk was to sit up all night to engross
it; as he was writing, he perceived a shadow on the
parchment, from the candle; he looked up, and there

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appeared a hand, which immediately vanished; he was
startled at it, hut thought it might be only his fancy, being
sleepy ; so he writ on ; by and by a fine white hand
interposed between the writing and the candle (he could
discern it was a woman's hand) but vanished as before ; I
have forgot, it appeared a third time. But with that the
clerk threw down his pen, and would engross no more, but
goes and tells his master of it, and absolutely refused to do
it. But it was done by somebody, and Sir Walter Long
was prevailed with to seal and sign it. He lived not long
after ; and his body did not go quiet to the grave, it being
arrested at the church porch by the trustees of the first
lady. The heir's relations took his part, and commenced
a suit against Sir Walter (the second son), and compelled
him to accept of a moiety of the estate ; so the eldest son
kept South- Wraxhall, and Sir Walter, the second son,
Draycot-Cernes, &c. This was about the middle of the
reign of King James I.

I must not forget an apparition in my country, which •
appeared several times to Doctor Turbervile's sister, at
Salisbury ; which is much talked of. One married a second
wife, and contrary to the agreement and settlement at the
first wife's marriage, did wrong the children by the first
venter. The settlement was hid behind a wainscot in the
chamber where the Doctor's sister did lie : and the appa-
rition of the first wife did discover it to her. By which
means right was done to the first wife's children. The
apparition told her that she wandered in the air, and was
ROW going to God. Dr. Turbervile (oculist) did affirm

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this to be true. See Mr. Glanvill's Sadducismus Tri-
umpliatus.

To one Mr. Towes, who had been schoolfellow with Sir
George Villers, the father of the first Duke of Buckingham,
(and was his friend and neighbour) as he lay in his bed
awake, (and it was day-light) came into his chamber, the
phantom of his dear friend Sir George Villers : said Mr.
Towes to him, why, you are dead, what make you here ?
said the Knight, I am dead, but cannot rest in peace for
the wickedness and abomination of my son George, at
Court. I do appear to you, to tell him of it, and to advise
and dehort him from his evil ways. Said Mr. Towes, the
Duke will not believe me, but will say that I am mad, or
doat. Said Sir George, go to him from me, and tell him
by such a token (a mole) that he had in some secret place,
which none but himself knew of. Accordingly Mr. Towes
went to the Duke, who laughed at his message. At his
return home the phantom appeared again, and told him
that the Duke would be stabbed (he drew out a dagger) a
quarter of a year after : and you shall outlive him half a
year ; and the warning that you shall have of your death,
will be, that your nose will fall a bleeding. All which
accordingly fell out so. This account I have had (in the
main) from two or three ; but Sir William Dugdale affirms
what I have here taken from him to "be true, and that the
apparition told him of several things to come, which proved
true, e.g. of a prisoner in the Tower, that shall be honour-
ably delivered. This Mr. Towes had so often the ghost of
his old friend appear to him, that it was not at all terrible

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to him. He was surveyor of the works at Windsor, (by
the favour of the Duke) being then sitting in the hall, he
cried out, the Duke of Buckingham is stabbed : he was
stabbed that very moment.

This relation Sir William Dugdale had from Mr. Pine,
(neighbour to Mr. Towes without Bishops-gate) they were
both great lovers of music, and sworn brothers. Mr. W.
Lilly, astrologer, did print this story false, which made Sir
Edmund Wyndham (who married Mr. Pine's daughter)
give to Sir George Hollis this true account contrary to
Mr. Lilly.

Mr. Thomas Ellyot, Groom of the bedchamber, married
Sir Edmund Wyndham's daughter, and had the roll (of
near a quire of paper) of the conferences of the apparition
and Mr. Towes. Mr. Ellyot was wont to say, that Mr.
Towes was (not a bigot, or did trouble himself much about
a religion, but was) a man of great morals.

Sir William Dugdale did farther inform me that Major
General Middleton (since Lord) went into the Highlands
of Scotland, to endeavour to make a party for King
Charles I. An old gentleman (that was second-sighted)
came and told him, that his endeavour was good, but he
would be unsuccessful : and moreover, " that they would
put the King to death : And that several other attempts
would be made, but all in vain : but that his son would
come in, but not reign; but at last would be restored."
This Lord Middleton had a great friendship with the Laird

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Bocconi, and they had made an agreement, that the first
of them that died should appear to the other in extremity.
The Lord Middleton was taken prisoner at Worcester fight,
and was prisoner in the Tower of London, under three
locks. Lying in his bed pensive, Bocconi appeared to
him ; my Lord Middleton asked him if he were dead or
alive ? he said, dead, and that he was a ghost ; and told
him, that within three days he should escape, and he did
so, in his wife's cloaths. When he had done his message,
he gave a frisk, and said,

Givenni Givanni 'tis very strange,
In the world to see so sudden a change.

And then gathered up and vanished. This account Sir
William Dugdale had from the Bishop of Edinburgh. And
this, and the former account he hath writ in a book of
miscellanies, which I have seen, and is now reposited with
other books of his in the Musseum at Oxford.

Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition :
being demanded, whether a good spirit, or a bad ? returned
no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and
most melodious twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a
fairy. So Properties.

Omnia finierat ; tenues secessit in auras:
Mansit odor ; posses scire fuisse Deam.

Here, her speech ending, fled the beauteous fan-, "1
Melting th' embodied form to thinner air, >

Whom the remaining scent a goddess did declare. J

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The learned Henry Jacob, fellow of Merton college in
Oxford, died at Dr. Jacob's, M. D. house in Canterbury.
About a week after his death, the doctor being in bed and
awake, and the moon shining bright, saw his cousin Henry
standing by his bed, in his shirt, with a white cap on his
head and his beard-mustachoes turning up, as when he
was alive. The doctor pinched himself, and was sure he
was awaked : he turned to the other side from him ; and,
after some time, took courage to turn the other way again
towards him, and Henry Jacob stood there still ; he should
have spoken to him, but he did not ; for which he has been
ever since sorry. About half an hour after, he vanished.
Not long after this, the cook-maid, going to the wood-pile
to fetch wood to dress supper, saw him standing in his shirt
upon the wood-pile.* This account I had in a letter from
Doctor Jacob, 1673, relating to his life, for Mr. Anthony
Wood ; which is now in his hands.

When Henry Jacob died, he would fain have spoken to
the Doctor, but could not, his tongue faltered. f 'Tis ima-
gined he would have told Doctor Jacob, with what person
he had deposited his manuscripts of his own writing ; they
were all the riches he had, 'tis suspected that one had them
and printed them under his own name. - — See there in
the said Aihence, vol. or part 2. p. 90.

* See the whole story in Ath. $ Fasti Oxon. Part 2, p. 91.

t This very story Dr. Jacob told me himself, being then at
Lord Teynham's, in Kent, where lie was then physician to my
eldest son ; whom he recovered from a fever. (A. Wood's note.)

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T. M. Esq., an old acquaintance of mine, hath assured
me that about a quarter of a year after his first wife's death,
as he lay in bed awake with his grand-child, his wife opened
the closet-door, and came into the chamber by the bedside,
and looked upon him and stooped down and kissed him ;
her lips were* warm, he fancied they would have been cold.
He was about to have embraced her, but was afraid it
might have done him hurt. When she went from him,
he asked her when he should see her again ? she turned
about and smiled, but said nothing. The closet door striked
as it uses to do, both at her coming in and going out. He
had every night a great coal fire in his chamber, which
gave a light as clear almost as a candle. He was hypo-
chondriacal ; he married two wives since, the latter end of
his life was uneasy.

Anno 165*. — At in the Moorlands in Staffordshire,

lived a poor old man, who had been a long time lame. One
Sunday, in the afternoon, he being alone, one knocked at
his door : he bade him open it, and come in. The Stranger
desired a cup of beer ; the lame man desired him to take
a dish and draw some, for he was not able to do it himself.
The stranger asked the poor old man how long he had been
ill ? the poor man told him. Said the Stranger, " I can
cure you. Take two or three balm leaves steeped in your
beer for a fortnight or three weeks, and you will be restored
to your health ; but constantly and zealously serve God.
The poor man did so, and became perfectly well. This
Stranger was in a purple-shag gown, such as was not seen
or known in those parts. And no body in the street after

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even song did see any one in such a coloured habit. Doctor
Gilbert Sheldon, since Archbishop of Canterbury, was then
in the Moorlands, and justified the truth of this to Elias
Ashmole, Esq., from whom I had this account, and he hath
inserted it in some of his memoirs, which are in the Mu-
saBum at Oxford.

MB. J. LYDAL of Trinity College, Soc. Oxon. March 11,
1649, 50, attests the ensuing relation, in a letter to Mr.
Aubrey, thus,

MB. AUBBEY,

CONCEBNING that which happened at Woodstock, I was
told by Mr. William Hawes, (who now lives with Sir Wil-
liam Fleetwood in the park) that the committee which sat
in the manor-house, for selling the king's lands were
frighted by strange apparitions ; and that the four surveyors
which were sent to measure the park, and lodged them-
selves with some other companions in the manor, were
pelted out of their chambers by stones thrown in at the
windows ; but from what hands the stones came they could
not see ; that their candles were continually put out, as
fast as they lighted them ; and that one with his sword
drawn to defend a candle, was with his own scabbard in
the mean time well cudgelled ; so that for the blow, or for
fear, he fell sick ; and the others were forced to remove,
some of them to Sir William Fleetwood's house, and the
rest to some other places. But concerning the cutting of
the oak, in particular, I have nothing.
Your Friend,

To be commanded to my power,

JOHN L YD ALL.

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One Lambert, a gun-smith at Hereford, was at Caer-
marthen, to mend and put in order the ammunition of that
county, before the expedition to Scotland, which was in
1639. He was then a young man, and walking on the
sand by the sea side, a man came to him (he did verily
believe it was a man) and asked him if he knew Hereford ?
yes, quoth he, I am a Hereford man. Do you know it
well, quoth the other ; perfectly well, quoth Lambert.
" That city shall be begirt" (he told me he did not know
what the word begirt meant then) " by a foreign nation,
" that will come and pitch their camp in the Haywood,
" and they shall batter such a gate," which they did, (I
have forgot the name of it) " and shall go away and not
" take it."

The Scots came in 1645, and encamped before Hereford

in the Hay-wood, and stormed the gate, and raised

the siege. Lambert did well remember this discourse, but
did not heed it till they came to the Hay-wood. Many of

the city had heard of this story, but when the gate

was stormed, Lambert went to all the guards of the town,
and encouraged them with more than ordinary confidence :
and contrary to all human expectation, when the besieged
had no hope of relief, the Scots raised the siege, September
2, 1645, and went back into Scotland, re infecta. I knew
this Lambert, and took this account from his own mouth ;
he is a modest poor man, of a very innocent life, lives poor,
and cares not to be rich.

A minister, who lived by Sir John Warre in

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Somersetshire, about 1665, walking over the Park to give
Sir John a visit, was rencountered by a venerable old man,
who said to him, " prepare yourself, for such a day" (which
was about three days after) " you shall die." The minister
told Sir John Warre, and my Lady this story, who heeded
it not. On the morning forewarned, Sir John called upon
the Parson early to ride a hunting, and to laugh at his
prediction : his maid went up to call him, and found him
stark dead. This from my Lady Katharine Henley, who
had it from my Lady Warre. But Dr. Burnet, in the life
of the Earl of Rochester, makes it a dream.

This put me in mind of a story in the Legend, <fec. of
King Edward the Confessor, being forewarned of his death
by a Pilgrim, to whom St. John the Evangelist revealed it,
for which the King gave the Pilgrim a rich ring oiF his
finger : and the event answered. The story is well painted
on glass, in a window of the south isle of Westminster-
Abbey, (the next window from that over the door that opens
into the west walk of the cloyster) it is the best window in
the church. Underneath the two figures, viz. of the King
and the Pilgrim, are these following verses, viz.

Rex cui nil aliud prcesto fuit, accipe, dixit.
Annulum, 8f ex digito detrahit ille suo.

Evangelistce villa Johannis.

gratia petit.

The verses under the Pilgrim are not legible. This
story is in Caxton's Chronicle.

Dr. Twiss, minister of the new church at West-
minster, told me, that his father, (Dr. Twiss, prolocutor of

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the assembly of divines, and author of Vindicice Gfratice)
when he was a school-boy at Winchester, saw the phantom
of a school-fellow of his, deceased, (a rakehell) who said
to him " I am damned." This was the~ occasion of Dr.
Twiss's (the father's) conversation, who had been before
that time, as he told his son, a very wicked boy ; he was
hypochondriacal. There is a story like this, of the con-
version of St. Bruno, by an apparition : upon which he
became mighty devout, and founded the order of the Car-
thusians.

John Evelyn, Esq., R. S. S., showed us at the Koyal-
Society, a note under Mr. Smith's hand, the curate of
Deptford, that in November, 1679, as he was in bed sick
of an ague, came to him the vision of a master of arts, with
a white wand in his hand, and told him that if he did lie
on his back three hours, viz. from ten to one, that he should
be rid of his ague. He lay a good while on his back, but
at last being weary he turned, and immediately the ague
attacked him ; afterwards he strictly followed the directions,
and was perfectly cured. He was awake, and it was in the
day-time.

This puts me in mind of a dream of old Farmer Good,
a neighbour of mine at Broad-Chalk, who being ill, dreamt
that he met with an old friend of his, (long since deceased)
by Knighton Ashes (in that parish) who told him, that if
he rose out of his bed, that he would die. He awaked,
and rose to make water, and was immediately seized with
a shivering fit, and died of an ague, aged 84.

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The Lady Viscountess Maidstone told me she saw (as
it were) a fly of fire, fly round about her in the dark, half
an hour before her lord died : he was killed at sea, and the
like before her mother-in-law the Countess of Winchelsea
died, (she was then with child).

A Dutch prisoner at Wood-bridge, in Suffolk, in the
reign of K. Charles II. could discern Spirits ; but others
that stood by could not. The bell tolled for a man newly
deceased. The prisoner saw his phantom, and did describe
him to the Parson of the parish,* who was with him ; ex-
actly agreeing with the man for whom the bell tolled. Says
the prisoner, now he is coming near to you, and now he is
between you and the wall ; the Parson was resolved to try
it, and went to take the wall of him, and was thrown down ;
he could see nothing. This story is credibly told by several
persons of belief.

There is a very remarkable story of an apparition, which
Martin Luther did see. Mentioned in his Commensalia
or Table-Talk^ which see.

Those that are delirious in high fevers, see (waking, men,
and things that are not there). I knew one Mr. M. L.
that took opium, and he did see (being awake) men and
things that were not present, (or perhaps) not in being.
Those whose spleens are ill affected have the like phanta-
sies. The power of imagination is wonderful.

* Dr. Hooke, the Parson of the parish, has often told this
story.

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De seipso duplicato.

Cardanus, Synes. Somniorum, lib. ii. cap. 12. In
somniis mortis est signum, quia duo fiunt, cum anima
separatur a corpore. Est 6f signum morbi in ipsis
cegrotantibus, nee turn aliud quicquam significat.

Of One's being divided into a Two-fold Person.
In dreams it is a sign of death, because out of one are
then made two, when the soul is separated from the body.
And it is a sign of the disease in sick men, nor signifies it
any thing else at that time.

As concerning apparitions of a man's own self, there are
sundry instances, some whereof, I shall here set down.

The Countess of Thanet (Earl John's Lady) saw as she
was in bed with her Lord in London, her daughter my
Lady Hatton, who was then in Northamptonshire, at
Horton Kirby ; the candle was burning in her chamber.
Since, viz. anno 1675, this Lady Hatton was blown up
with gunpowder set on fire by lightning, in the castle at
Guernsey, where her Lord was Governor.*

The beautiful Lady Diana Rich, daughter to the Earl
of Holland, as she was walking in her father's garden at
Kensington, to take the fresh air before dinner, about
eleven o'clock, being then very well, met with her own
apparition, habit, and every thing, as in a looking-glass.
About a month after, she died of the small-pox. And it

* See Mr. Baxter's Treatise of Spirits.

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is said that her sister, the Lady Isabella Thynne, saw the
like of herself also, before she died. This account I had
from a person of honour.

Mrs. E. W. daughter of Sir W. W. affirms that Mrs.
J. (her father's sister) saw herself, i. e. her phantom, half
a year before she died, for a quarter of an hour together.
She said further, that her aunt was sickly fourteen years
before she died, and that she walked living, i. e. her appa-
rition, and that she was seen by several at the same time.
The like is reported of others.

Mr. Trahern, B.D. (chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman,
Lord Keeper) a learned and sober person, was son of a
shoe-maker in Hereford : one night as he lay in bed, the
moon shining very bright, he saw the phantom of one
of the apprentices, sitting in a chair in his red waistcoat,
and head-band about his head, and strap upon his knee ;
which apprentice was really in bed and asleep with another
fellow-apprentice, in the same chamber, and saw him. The
fellow was living, 1671. Another time, as he was in bed,
he saw a basket come sailing in the air, along by the
valence of his bed ; I think he said there was fruit in the
basket : it was a phantom. From himself.

When Sir Richard Nepier, M.D. of London, was upon
the road coming from Bedfordshire, the chamberlain of the
inn, shewed him his chamber, the doctor saw a dead man
lying upon the bed ; he looked more wistly and saw it was
himself: he was then well enough in health. He went

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forward on his journey to Mr. Steward's in Berkshire, and
there died. This account I have in a letter from Elias
Ashmole, Esq. They were intimate friends.

" In the Desarts of Africk, you shall meet oftentimes
" with fairies appearing in the shape of men and women,
" but they vanish quite away like phantastical delusions."*

I Captain Henry Bell, do hereby declare both to the
present age and to posterity, that being employed beyond
the seas, in state affairs, divers years together, both by
King James, and also by the late King Charles in Ger-
many. I did hear and understand in all places great be-
wailing and lamentation made, by reason of destroying and
burning of above fourscore thousand of Martin Luther's
books, entituled, His last Divine Discourses.f

Upon which divine work or discourses, the reformation,
begun before in Germany, was wonderfully promoted and
spread in other countries.

But afterwards it so fell out, that the Pope then living,
viz. Gregory XIII. understanding what great hurt and
prejudice he and his religion had already received by
reason of the said Luther's discourses, and also fearing that
the same might bring further contempt and mischief upon
himself and his church, he therefore to prevent the same,

* Pliny's Natural Hist. lib. 7, chap. 2.

f This narrative is in the Preface of the translation of Mr.
Luther's Table-Talk.

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did fiercely stir up and instigate the Emperor then in be-
ing, viz. Rodolphus III. to make an edict through the whole
empire, that all the foresaid printed books should be burned,
and also that it should be death for any person to have or
keep a copy thereof, but to burn the same, which edict was
speedily put in execution accordingly ; insomuch that not
one of all the said printed books, nor any one copy of the
same, could be found out, or heard of in any place.

Yet it pleased God, that in anno 1626, a German gen-
tleman, named Casparus Van Sparr, with whom, in my
stay in Germany, about King James's business, I became
familiarly known and acquainted, having occasion to build
upon an old foundation of a house, wherein his grand-father
dwelt at that time, when the said edict was published in
Germany, for the burning the said books, and digging deep
under the said old foundation, one of the said original
printed books was there happily found, lying in a deep ob-
scure hole, being wrapped in a strong linen cloth, which
was waxed all over with bees wax within and without,
whereby the said book was preserved fair without any
blemish.

And at the same time Ferdinandus II. being Emperor
of Germany, who was a severe enemy and persecutor of
the Protestant religion, the foresaid gentleman, and grand-
child to him, that had hidden the said book in that obscure
hole, fearing that if the said Emperor should get knowledge
that one of the said books were yet forthcoming, and in his
custody, whereby not only himself might be brought into

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trouble, but also the book be in danger to be destroyed, as
all the rest were long before ; and also calling to mind,
that I had the High-Dutch tongue very perfect, did send
the said original book over hither into England unto me :
related to me the passages of the preserving and finding the
said book ; and earnestly moved me in his letter, to translate
the said book into English.

Whereupon, I took the said book before me, and many
times began to translate the same, but always I was hin-
dered therein, being called upon about other business, in-
somuch that by no possible means I could remain by that
work. Then about six weeks after I had received the said
book, it fell out, that being in bed with my wife, one night
between twelve and one o'clock, she being asleep, but my-
self yet awake, there appeared unto me an antient man,
standing at my bed-side, arrayed in white, having a long
and broad white beard, hanging down to his girdle steed,
who taking me by the right ear, spake these words follow-
ing unto me ; " Sirrah, will not you take time to translate
" that book which is sent unto you out of Germany ? I
" will provide for you both place and time to do it : " and
then he vanished out of my sight.

Whereupon being much affrighted, I fell into an ex-
tream sweat, insomuch that my wife awaking, and finding
me all over wet, she asked me what I ailed ; I told her
what I had seen and heard ; but I never did heed or re-
gard visions nor dreams. And so the same fell soon out
of my mind.

94 APPARITIONS.

Then about a fortnight after I had seen the vision, on a
Sunday I went to Whitehall to hear the sermon, after
which ended, I returned to my lodging which was then in
King-street, Westminster, and sitting down to dinner
with my wife, two messengers were sent from the council-
board with a warrant to carry me to the keeper of the
gate-house at Westminster, there to be safely kept, until
farther order from the Lords of the Council ; which was
done without shewing any cause* at all, wherefore I was
committed ; upon which said warrant I was kept there ten
whole years close prisoner ; where I spent five years thereof
about translating of the said book : Insomuch as I found
the words very true which the old man in the aforesaid
vision said unto me, " I will shortly provide you both place
" and time to translate it."

Then after I had finished the translation, Dr. Laud,
Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, sent to me in the prison, by
Dr. Bray his chaplain, ten pounds, and desired to peruse •
the book ; he afterwards sent me by Dr. Bray forty pounds.
There was a committee of the House of Commons for the
printing of this translation, which was in 1652.

A full and true relation of the examination and confession
of William Barwick and Edward Mangall, of two horrid

* Whatsoever was pretended, yet the true cause of the Cap-
tain's commitment was, because he was urgent with the Lord
Treasurer for his arrears, which amounted to a great sum, he was
not willing to pay, and to be freed from his clamours, clapt him up
into prison.

APPARITIONS. 95

murders ; one committed by William Barwick, upon his
wife being with child, near Cawood in Yorkshire, upon
the 14th of April last : as likewise a full account how it
came to be discovered by an apparition of the person
murdered.

The second was committed by Edward Mangall, upon
Elizabeth Johnson, alias Ringrose, and her bastard
child, on the 4th of September last, who said he was
tempted thereto by the Devil.

Also their trials and convictions before the Honourable Sir
JOHN POWEL, Knight, one of their Majesties Justices,
at the assizes holden at York, on the 16th of Septem-
ber, 1690.

As murder is one of the greatest crimes that man can
be guilty of, so is it no less strangely and providentially
discovered, when privately committed. The foul criminal
believes himself secure, because there was no witness of
the fact. Not considering that the all-seeing eye of Hea-
ven beholds his concealed iniquity, and by some means or
other bringing it to light, never permits it to go unpunished.
And indeed so certainly does the revenge of God pursue
the abominated murderer, that, when witnesses are wanting
of the fact, the very ghosts of the murdered parties cannot
rest quiet in their graves, till they have made the detection
themselves. Of this we are now to give the reader two
remarkable examples that lately happened in Yorkshire ;
and no less signal for the truth of both tragedies, as being
confirmed by the trial of the offenders, at the last assizes
held for that county.

96 APPARITIONS.

The first of these murders was committed hj William
Barwick, upon the body of Mary Barwick, his wife, at the
same time big with child. What were the motives, that
induced the man to do this horrid fact, does not appear by
the examination of the evidence, or the confession of the
party : only it appeared upon the trial, that he had got her
with child before he married her : and 'tis very probable,
that, being then constrained to marry her, he grew weary
of her, which was the reason he was so willing to be rid of
her, though he ventured body and soul to accomplish his
design.

The murder was committed on Palm-Monday, being the
fourteenth of April, about two of the clock in the after-
noon, at which time the said Barwick having drilled his
wife along 'till he came to a certain close, within sight of
Cawood-Castle, where he found the conveniency of a pond,
he threw her by force into the water, and when she was
drowned, and drawn forth again by himself upon the bank
of the pond, had the cruelty to behold the motion of the in-
fant, yet warm in her womb. This done, he concealed the
body, as it may readily be supposed, among the bushes,
that usually encompass a pond, and the next night, when
it grew duskish, fetching a hay-spade from a rick that stood
in a close, he made a hole by the side of the pond, and
there slightly buried the woman in her cloaths.

Having thus despatched two at once, and thinking him-
self secure, because (unseen) he went the same day to his
brother-in-law, one Thomas Lofthouse of KufForth, within

APPARITIONS. 97

three miles of York, who had married his drowned wife's
sister, and told him he had carried his wife to one Richard
Harrison's house in Selby, who was his uncle, and would
take care of her. But Heaven would not he so deluded,
but raised up the ghost of the murdered woman to make
the discovery. And therefore it was upon the Easter
Tuesday following, about two of the clock in the afternoon,
the forementioned Lofthouse having occasion to water a
quickset hedge, not far from his house ; as he was going
for the second pail full, an apparition went before him in
the shape of a woman, and soon after sat down upon a
rising green grass-plat, right over against the pond : he
walked by her as he went to the pond ; and as he returned
with the pail from the pond, looking sideways to see
whether she continued in the same place, he found she did ;
and that she seemed to dandle something in her lap, that
looked like a white bag (as he thought) which he did not
observe before. So soon as he had emptied his pail,
he went into his yard, and stood still to try whether he
could see her again, but she was vanished.

In this information he says, that the woman seemed to
be habited in a brown coloured petticoat, waistcoat, and a
'white hood ; such a one as his wife's sister usually wore,
and that her countenance looked extreamly pale and wan,
with her teeth in sight, but no gums appearing, and that
her physiognomy was like to that of his wife's sister, who
was wife to William Barwick.

But notwithstanding the gastliness of the apparition, it

98 APPARITIONS.

seems it made so little impression in Lofthouse's mind,
that he thought no more of it, neither did he speak to any
body concerning it, 'till the same night as he was at his
family duty of prayer, that that apparition returned again
to his thoughts, and discomposed his devotion ; so that
after he had made an end of his prayers, he told the whole
story of what he had seen to his wife, who laying circum-
stances together, immediately inferred, that her sister was
either drowned, or otherwise murdered, and desired her
husband to look after her the next day, which was Wednes-
day in Easter week. Upon this, Lofthouse recollecting
what Barwick had told him of his carrying his wife to his
uncle at Selby, repaired to Harrison beforementioned, but
found all that Barwick had said to be false ; for that Har-
rison had neither heard of Barwick, nor his wife, neither
did he know anything of them. Which notable circum-
stance, together with that other of the apparition, encreased
his suspicions to that degree, that now concluding his wife's
sister was murdered, he went to the Lord Mayor of York ;
and having obtained his warrant, got Barwick apprehended,
who was no sooner brought before the Lord Mayor, but his
own conscience then accusing him, he acknowledged the
whole matter, as it has been already related, as it appears
by his examination and confession herewith printed : to
which are also annexed the informations of Lofthouse, in
like manner taken before the Lord Mayor of York, for a
further testimony and confirmation of what is here set down.

On Wednesday the sixteenth of September, 1690, the
criminal, William Barwick, was brought to his trial, before

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the Honourable Sir John Powel, Knight, one of the judges
of the northern circuit, at the assizes holden at York,
where the prisoner pleaded not guilty to his indictment :
but upon the evidence of Thomas Lofthouse, and his wife,
and a third person, that the woman was found buried in
her cloaths in the Close by the pond side, agreeable to the
prisoner's confession, and that she had several bruises on
her head, occasioned by the blows the murderer had given
her, to keep her under water : and upon reading the pri-
soner's confession before the Lord Mayor of York, attested
by the clerk, who wrote the confession, and who swore the
prisoner's owning and signing it for truth, he was found
guilty, and sentenced to death, and afterwards ordered to
be hanged in chains.

All the defence which the prisoner made, was only this,
that he was threatened into the confession that he had made,
and was in such a consternation, that he did not know what
he said or did. But then it was sworn by two witnesses,
that there was no such thing as any threatening made use
of; but that he made a free and voluntary confession, only
with this addition at first ; that he told the Lord Mayor,
he had sold his wife for five shillings ; but not being able
to name either the person or the place where she might be
produced, that was looked upon as too frivolous to out-weigh
circumstances, that were proofs too apparent.

The information of Thomas Lofthouse, of Rufforth, taken

upon oath the twenty -fourth day of April, 1690,
WHO sayeth and deposeth, that one William Barwick,

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who lately married this informant's wife's sister, came to
this informant's house, about the fourteenth instant, and
told this informant, he had carried his wife to one Richard
Harrison's house in Selby, who was uncle to him, and
would take care of her ; and this informant hearing nothing
of the said Barwick's wife, his said sister-in-law, imagined
he had done her some mischief, did yesterday go to the
said Harrison's house in Selby, where he said he had car-
ried her to ; and the said Harrison told this informant, he
knew nothing of the said Barwick, or his wife, and this
informant doth verily believe the said Barwick to have
murdered her.

THOMAS LOFTHOUSE.
Jurat die 6f Anno
super dicto coram me,

S. DAWS ON, Mayor.

The examination of the said William Barwiclc, taken the,

day and year abovesaid,

WHO sayeth and confesseth, that he, this examinant, on
Monday was seventh night, about two of the clock in the
afternoon, this examinant was walking in a Close, betwixt
Cawood and Wistow ; and he farther sayeth, that he threw
his said wife into the pond, where she was drowned, and
the day following, towards the evening, got a hay-spade at
a hay-stake in the said Close, and made a grave beside the
said pond, and buried her ;

WILLIAM BABWICK.
Exam. capt. die <$f Anno
super diet, coram me,

S. DAWSOX, Mayor.

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The examination of William Barwick, taken the twenty-

fifth day of April, 1690,

WHO sayeth and confesseth, that he carried his wife over
a certain wain-bridge, called Bishopdike-bridge, betwixt
Cawood and Sherborne, and within a lane about one hun-
dred yards from the said bridge, and on the left hand of
the said bridge, he and his wife went over a stile, on the
left hand of a certain gate, entering into a certain close, on
the left hand of the said lane ; and in a pond in the said
close, adjoining to a quick-wood-hedge, did drown his wife,
and upon the bank of the said pond, did bury her : and
further, that he was within sight of Cawood Castle, on the
left hand ; and that there was but one hedge betwixt the
said close, where he drowned his said wife, and the Bishop-
slates belonging to the said castle.

WILLIAM BARWICK.
Exam. capt. die &f Anno
super diet, coram me,

S. DAWSON, Mayor.

On Tuesday, September the seventeenth, 1690, at York

assizes.

THOMAS LOFTHOUSE of Ruiforth, within three miles of
York city, sayeth, that on Easter Tuesday last, about half
an hour after twelve of the clock, in the day time, he was
watering quickwood, and as he was going for the second
pail, there appeared walking before him, an apparition in
the shape of a woman, soon after she sat down over against
the pond, on a green hill, he walked by her as he went to

102 APPARITIONS.

the pond, and as he came with the pail of water from the
pond, looking side-ways to see if she sat in the same place,
which he saw she did ; and had on her lap something like
a white hag, a dandling of it (as he thought) which he did
not observe before : after he had emptied his pail of water,
he stood in his yard, to see if he could see her again ; but
could not : he says her apparel was brown cloaths, waist-
coat and petticoat, a white hood, such as his wife's sister
usually wore, and her face looked extream pale, her teeth
in sight, no gums appearing, her visage being like his
wife's sister, and wife to William Barwick.

Signed,

THOMAS LOFTHOUSE.

THE second was a murder committed by one Edward
Mangall, upon the body of Elizabeth Johnson alias Kin-
grose, the fourth of September last past, at a place called
King's Causey, near Adling-street, in the county of York.
He had got her with child, at least as she pretended ; and
was brought to bed of a boy, which she called William,
and laid him to Mangall's charge, and required him to
marry her : which he refused at first to do ; but afterwards
pretending to make her his wife, bid her go before him
down King's Causey, towards the church, and he would
follow her, as he did; but knocked out her brains in a
close by the way, and at the same time, as was shrewdly
suspected, killed the child.

This Mangall being examined by Mr. William Maule-
verer, the coroner, confessed that he had murdered the

APPARITIONS. 103

woman ; but denied that he meddled with the boy. And
being asked why he murdered the woman, he made answer
that the Devil put him upon it ; appearing to him in a
flash of lightning, and directing him where to find the club,
wherewith he committed the murder. So ready is the
Devil with his temptations, when he finds a temper easy
to work upon.

He was convicted and found guilty upon the evidence of
Anne Hinde, and his own confession to the coroner, as
may be seen by the information annexed ; and was there-
upon sentenced to death, and ordered to be hanged in
chains, as Barwick was before him, he making no defence
for himself for so foul and horrid a murder, but that he was
tempted thereto by the Devil.

Informations taken upon oath, September the 10t7i, 1690.

The information of Anne Hinde, wife of James Hinde, of
Adling -street, in the county of York, husband-man,
upon her oath saiih ;

THAT on Monday, the first of September, one Elizabeth
Johnson, Alias Eingrose, came to her house in the evening,
with a child she called William : and the said Elizabeth
the next day told this deponent, that the said Elizabeth
was going to Grawthrope, in the county of Lincoln, to seek
for one Edward Mangall, who had got her with that child,
to see if he would marry her : upon which this deponent
went with the said Elizabeth, to persuade him to marry
her ; but he denied having any dealings with her. But

104 APPARITIONS.

this deponent doth further depose, that on the fourth of
September, the said Edward came to this deponent's house,
and asked for the said Elizaheth; if she were there she
might serve a warrant on him, if she had one, for he was
going to RawclyfF, to consult his friends about it ; and after
some private discourse had betwixt the said Edward and
the said Elizabeth, the said Elizabeth told this deponent,
that he said, the said Elizabeth might go down King's-
Causey ; and he would follow her, and marry her : and
this deponent did see the said Elizabeth go down King's-
Causey; and a little after this deponent saw the said
Edward also go down the King's-Causey ; and after that,
this deponent did not see the said Elizabeth, nor the said
child till she saw them lie dead.

AXNE HlNDE.

Capt. 10. die
Septembris 1690.

By me

W. MAULEVERER.
Un. Coron. Commit, prcedict.

THE examination of Edward Mangall, upon the murder
of Elizabeth Johnson alias Eingrose, taken before me
William Mauleverer, Gent, one of the Coroner's of our
Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen
Mary, &c.

THE said Edward Mangall did confess, that he did murder
the said Elizabeth Johnson alias Bingrose, upon the fourth

APPARITIONS. 105

day of September instant, in a close nigh to King's-
Causey, he being asked the reason, said the Devil put
him upon it, appearing to him in a flash of lightning ; but
denied that he medled with William Johnson alias King-
rose, the child.

Taken the 10th of Sept. 1690,

By me
W. MAULEVEBER, Coroner.

VOICES.

jEPE etiam fy in prcdiis Fauni auditi, $ in
rebus turbidis veridicce voces ex occulto missce
esse dicuntur. Cujus generis duo sunt eot
multis exempla, sed maxima. Nam non
multo ante Urbem captam exaudita vox est a Luco Vestce.
qui a Palatii radice in novam viam devexus est, ut mur,
$ portce reficerentur : futurum esse, nisi provisum esset
ut Roma caperetur. Quod neglectum cum caveri poterat,
post acceptam illam maximam cladem explicatum est. Ara
enim Aio loquenti, quam septam videmusf <$f adversus eum
locum consecrata est.

i. e. Often even in battles have the Gods of the woods
been heard to speak, and in troublesome times, when the
affairs of governments have gone wrong, and been in dis-
order and turmoil, voices have been known to steal upon
the ears of persons, that came as it were from a corner, but
they knew not whence, and told them important truths.
Of which kind there are out of a great many, two exam-
ples, and those indeed very rare and extraordinary. For
not long before the city was taken, a voice was heard from

VOICES. 107

the grove of Vesta, which went from the foot, and basis of
the palace, sloping and bending into a new road, that the
city walls and gates should be repaired: and that unless
care was taken of it, the consequence would be, that Rome
would be taken. This being omitted, when provision might
have been made, was explained after that most signal and
dreadful overthrow. For the altar, which we see inclosed,
and that fronts that place, was a consecrated altar.

Neque solum deorum voces Pythagorei observave-

runt, sed etiam hominum, quce vocant omina .

i. e. Neither did the Pythagorsean Philosophers observe
the voices of Gods only, but also those of men, which they
called Omens.

" Nero <$[ lo'n dit qu'on entendoit un son de

" trumpette dans les collines d'alentour, des gemissemens
" sur le tombeau de sa mere"

Nero, they say, heard the sound of a trumpet among the
hills and the rocks round about him, and groans over the
tomb of his mother.

In the life of King Henry IV. of France, written by the
Arch-Bishop of Paris, it is recorded, that Charles IX.
(who caused the massacre) was wont to hear screaches, like
those of the persons massacred.

St. Augustin heard a voice, saying, TOLLE, LEGE, take,

108 VOICES.

read. He took up his bible, and dipt on Kom. 13. 13.
" Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and
" wantonness," &c. And reformed his manners upon it.

One Mr. Smith, a practitioner of physic at Tamworth
in Warwickshire, an understanding sober person, reading
in Hollinshead's Chronicle, found a relation of a great fight
between Vortigern and Hengest, about those parts, at a
place called Colemore : a little time after, as he lay awake
in his bed, he heard a voice, that said unto him, " You
" shall shortly see some of the bones of those men and
" horses slain, that you read of : " he was surprized at the
voice, and asked in the name of God, who it was that spoke,
to him. The voice made answer, that he should not trouble
himself about that ; but what he told him should come to
pass. Shortly after, as he went to see Colonel Archer
(whose servants were digging for marie) . he saw a great
many bones of men and horses ; and also pot-sherds ; and
upon the view it appeared to be according to the description
in HottinsTiead'B Chronicle ; and it was the place where the
fight was ; but it is now called Blackmore.

This was about the year 1685, and I had the account
from my worthy friend and old acquaintance Thomas Har-
riet of Warwickshire, Esq., who is very well acquainted
with Mr. Smith aforesaid.

Extracts out of the book, entitled Relation de la Nouvelle-
France, 1662, and 1663, 12.

" Les Sauvages avoient eu de presentiments aussi bien

VOICES. 109

" que les Francois, de cet horrible Tremble-terre. Voicy la
" deposition d'une sauvage age 20. fort innocente, simple,
" fy sincere. La nuict du 4 ou 5 de Febr. 1663 estant
" entirement eveillee, $ en plein jugement, assise comme
" sur mon seant, j' ay entender une voix distincte $f intel-
" ligible, qui m'a dit, II doit arrive aujourdhuy de choses
" extrangees, la Terre doit tremble. Je me trouveray pour
" lors saisie d'une grand frageur, parce que je ne voyois
" personne d'ou peut provinir cette voix : Remplie de
" crainte, ja tascliay a m'en dormir auec assez de peine :
" Et le jour estant venu, je dis a mon mary cequi m'estoit
" arrive. Sur le 9, ou le 10 heure de mesme jour, allant
" au bois pour buscher, a peine j'estois entree en la Forest

" que la mesme voix se fit entendre, me disent mesme

" chose, ^ de la mesme f aeon que la nuict precedente : La
" peur fuit bienplus grande, moy estant tout seule."

i. e. The wild inhabitants, as well as the French, had
presages of that dreadful earthquake. See here the depo-
sition of a wild Indian, about twenty- six years of age, who
was very innocent, simple, and sincere. On the night of
the 4th or 5th of February, in the .year 1663, being per-
fectly awake, and in sound judgment, and setting up as
it were in my bed, I heard a distinct and intelligible voice,
that said to me, There will happen to day many strange
things. The earth will quake and tremble. I found myself
seized with an extraordinary fear, because I saw no person
fi-om whom the voice could proceed. I, full of terror, with
great difficulty, endeavoured to compose myself to sleep.
And as soon as it was day I told my husband what had

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happened to me. About nine or ten of the clock the same
day, going to a forest a wood-gathering, I was scarce got
into the brow of the forest, but I heard the same voice
again, which told me the same thing, and in the same
manner as it had done the night before. My fear was
much greater this time, because I was all alone. She got
her burden of wood, and met her sister who comforted her,
to whom she told this story, and when she came to her
father's caben, she told the same story there; but they
heard it without any reflections.

" La chose en demeure la, jusquez a 5. ou 6 heures

" du soir du mesme jour, ou un tremblement de Terre
" survenant, Us reconnurent par experience, que cequ'ils
" m'auoient intendu dire avant Midy, n'estoit que trop
" uray"

i. e. The matter rested there, till about five or six

of the clock in the evening of the same day, when an
earthquake coming suddenly upon us ; experience made
them recollect and acknowledge that, what they had heard
me say before noon, was but too true,

" Envoyee au H. P. Andre Castillon Provincial de la
" Province de France par les Missioners de Peres de la
" Compagnie de Jesu. Imprime a Paris, 1664."

i. e. Sent to the reverend father Andrew Castillon, pro-
vincial of the province of France, by the missioners of the
fathers of the Society of Jesus. Printed at Paris, 1664.

VOICES. Ill

" Livy, makes mention, that before the coming of the
" Grauls to Borne, Marcus Ceditius, a Plebeian, acquainted
" the Senate, that passing one night about twelve o'clock
" through the Via Nova, he heard a voice (bigger than a
" man's) which advised him to let the Senate know, the
" Gauls were on their march to Home. How those things
" could be, it is to be discoursed by persons well versed 'in
" the causes of natural and supernatural events : for my
" part I will not pretend to understand them, unless (ac-
" cording to the opinion of some Philosophers) we may
" believe that the air being full of intelligences and spirits,
" who foreseeing future events, and commiserating the
" condition of mankind, give them warning by these kind
" of intimations, that they may the more timely provide
" and defend themselves against their calamities. But
" whatever is the cause, experience assures us, that after
" such denunciations, some extraordinary thing or other
" does constantly happen."

IMPULSES.

Cicero de Natura Deorum, lib. 2.

RJETEREA ipsorum Deorum scepe prcesen-
tice, quales supra commemoravi, decla-
rant, ut ab his, <$f Civitatibus, fy singulis
Hominibus consuli. Quod quidem intelli-
gitur etiam significationibus rerum futurarum, quce turn

dormientibus, turn Vigilantibus portentantur. Nemo

vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.

i. e. Moreover the frequent presence of the Gods them-
selves, as I have above mentioned, plainly manifest, that
they preside, with their good advice, as guardians, not only
over cities, but particular men. This may be likewise
certainly understood by the several significations of future
events, which are predicted to men both sleeping and

waking there was never any one single great man,

but what has, in some measure, partaken of this divine
inspiration.

Testor Deum me olim ante plures menses melancolia ex
adverso casu conceptam, Domini patris mei prcesentisse, ac

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pronunciasse mortem, cum tamen ipso vdlde incolumi, nulla
ejus mihi ratio probabilis ajferretur : 6f sic ipse posted
momentum sui obitus, septem circiter horas antea pro-
nunciavit.

i. e. I call God to witness, that formerly some months
before, having conceived it in a fit of melancholy, from an
unlucky event, that I foreknew, and foretold my father's
death, when he being quite in health, no probable account
of it offered itself to me : and in like manner he himself
afterwards pronounced the moment of his departure near
seven hours before. Imperidlis Musceum Physicum. 104.

Oliver Cromwell had certainly this afflatus. One that
I knew, that was at the battle of Dunbar, told me that
Oliver was carried on with a divine impulse ; he did laugh
so excessively as if he had been drunk ; his eyes sparkled
with spirits. He obtained a great victory: but the action
was said to be contrary to human prudence. The same fit
of laughter seized Oliver Cromwell, just before the battle
of Naseby ; as a kindsman of mine, and a great favourite
of his, Colonel J. P. then, present testified. Cardinal
Mazarine said, that he was a lucky fool.

In one of the great fields at Warminster in Wiltshire,
in the harvest, at the very time of the fight at Bosworth
field, between King Eichard III. and Henry VII. there
was one of the parish took two sheaves, crying (with some
intervals) now for Eichard, now for Henry ; at last lets
fall the sheaf that did represent Eichard ; and cried, now

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for King Henry, Kichard is slain. This action did agree
with the very time, day and hour. When I was a school-
boy I have heard this confidently delivered by tradition, by
some old men of our country.

Monsieur de Scudery in his Poem, entituled Rome
Vaincue, fancies an angel to be sent to Alaric, to impel
him to over-run the Roman empire with his swarms of
northern people. The like may be fancied upon all changes
of government; when providence destines the ends, it
orders the means.

By way of parallel to this, the Pope by the like instinct,
being at Rome in the consistory, did speak of the engage-
ment in the famous battle of Lepanto, and that the Chris-
tians were victors. The fight at sea being two hundred
miles or more distant from them.

King Charles I. after he was condemned, did tell Colo-
nel Tomlinson, that he believed, that the English monarchy
was now at an end : about half an hour after, he told the
Colonel, " that now he had assurance by a strong impulse
" on his spirit, that his son should reign after him." This
information I had from Fabian Philips, Esq. of the Inner-
temple, who had good authority for the truth of it : I have
forgot who it was.

The Lord Roscomon, being a boy of ten years of age at
Caen in Normandy, one day was (as it were) madly extra-*
vagant in playing, leaping, getting over the table-boards, &c.

IMPULSES. 115

He was wont to be sober enough : they said, God grant
this bodes no ill luck to him ; in the heat of this extrava-
gant fit, he cries out, my father is dead. A fortnight after,
news came from Ireland, that his father was dead. This
account I had from Mr. Knolles, who was his governor,
and then with him ; since Secretary to the Earl of Straf-
ford, and I have heard his Lordship's relations confirm the
same.

A very good friend of mine and old acquaintance, hath
had frequent impulses ; when he was a commoner at Tri-
nity College, Oxford, he had several. When he rode to-
wards the West one time in the stage coach, he told the
company, " We shall certainly be robbed," and they were
so. When a brother of his, a merchant, died, he left him
with other effects, a share of a ship, which was returning
from Spain, and of which news was brought to the Ex-
change at London of her good condition ; he had such an
impulse upon his spirit, that he must needs sell his share,
though to loss ; and he did sell it. The ship came safe to
Cornwall, (or Devon) and somewhere afterwards fell upon
the rocks and sunk : not a man perished ; but ah1 the goods
were lost except some parrots, which were brought for
Queen Katherine.

The good genius of Socrates is much remembered, which
gave him warning. The Ethnick Genij are painted like
our Angels ; strong impulses are to* be referred to them.

The learned Dr. John Pell, hath told me, that he did

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verily believe, that some of his solutions of difficult problems
were not done Sine Divino auxilio.

Mr. J. N. a very understanding gentleman, and not
superstitious, protested to me, that when he hath been over-
persuaded by friends to act contrary to a strong impulse,
that he never succeeded.

KNOCKINGS.

. BAXTER'S Certainty of the World of
Spirits. " A gentleman, formerly seemingly
" pious, of late years hath fallen into the sin
" of drunkenness ; and when he has been
" drunk, and slept himself sober, something knocks at his
" beds -head, as if one knocked on a wainscot ; when they
" remove the bed, it follows him, besides loud noises on
" other parts where he is, that all the house heareth.

" It poseth me to think what kind of spirit this is, that
" hath such a care of this man's soul, (which makes me
" hope he will recover.) Do good spirits dwell so near us ?
" or, are they sent on such messages ? or, is it his guardian
" Angel ? or, is it the soul of some dead friend, that suffereth
" and yet retaining love to him, as Dives did to his brethren,
" would have him saved ? God keepeth yet such things
" from us in the dark."

Major John Morgan of Wells, did aver, that as he lay

in bed with Mr. Barlow (son of the Dean of Wells)

they heard three distinct knocks on the bed ; Mr. Barlow
shortly after fell sick and died.

118 KNOCKINGS.

Three or four days before my father died, as I was in
my bed about nine o'clock in the morning perfectly awake,
I did hear three distinct knocks on the beds-head, as if it
had been with a ruler or ferula.

Mr. Hierome Banks, as he lay on his death bed, in
Bell-yard, said, three days before he died, that Mr. Jen-
nings of the Inner-temple, (his great acquaintance, dead a
year or two before) gave three knocks, looked in, and said,
come away. He was as far from believing such things as
any man.

Mr. George Ent of the Middle-temple, told me some
days before he died, that he had, such a Deceptio Visus, he
called it.

" In Germany when one is to die out of one's family, or
" some friends, there will sometimes likewise happen some
" token that sigriifieth the death of one, e. g. some (or
" one) in the house heareth the noise, as if a meal-sack
" fell down from on high upon the boards of the chamber ;
" they presently go up thither, where they thought it was
" done, and find nothing ; but all things in order.

" Also at Berlin, when one shall die out of the electoral
" house of Brandenburgh, a woman drest in white linen
" appears always to several, without speaking, or doing any
" harm, for several weeks before." This from Jasper
Belshazer Cranmer, a Saxon gentleman.

BLOWS INVISIBLE.

E. BROGKAVE, of Hamel, near Puckridge
in Hertfordshire, when he was a young man,
riding in a lane in that county, had a hlow
given him on his cheek : (or head) he looked
back and saw that nobody was near behind him ; anon he
had such another blow, I have forgot if a third. He turned
back, and fell to the study of the law ; and was afterwards
a Judge. This account I had from Sir John Penruddocke
of Compton-Chamberlain, (our neighbour) whose Lady was
Judge Brograve's niece.

Newark (Sir G. L.'s) has knockings before death. And
there is a house near Co vent Garden that has warnings.
The Papists are full of these observations.

The like stories are reported of others.

PEOPHESIES.

ICERO de Divinatione, Lib. I. gentem

quidem nullam video, neque tarn humanam
atque doctam: neque tarn immanem tarn;
barbaram, quce non significari futura, &f a
quibusdam intelligi, prcedicique posse censeat.

i. e. I know of no country, either so polished and learned,
or so rude, barbarous and uncivilized, but what always
allowed that some particular persons are gifted with an
insight into futurity, and are endued with a talent of pre-
diction.

To pass by the prophesies of holy writ, the prophesies
of Nostradamus do foretel very strangely ; but not easily
understood till they are fulfilled. The book is now common.

Peter Martyr, in his Decades, tells us, that there was a
prophet among the Salvages in America, that did foretel
the coming in of strangers in ships, which they had not
known.

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The prophesies of St. Malachi, are exceeding strange.
He describes the Popes by their coats of arms, or their
names, or manners : if his prophesies be true, there will be
but fifteen Popes more. It is printed in a book in Octavo,
entituled Bucelini Histories Nucleus, 1654, in calce Libri
thus, Prophetia Malachice Monachi Bangorensis, 6f A..
Episcopi Ardinensis, Hibernice Primatis. 1665, in two
leaves.

Mr. Lancelot Morehouse, in the time of the civil wars,
rescued a sheet of parchment in quarto, most delicately
writ, from a taylor's sheers. It was part of a book, and
was a prophecy concerning England in Latin Hexameters ;
I saw it, 1649. It pointed at our late troubles : he gave
it to Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, and is lost among
other good papers.

In a book* of Mr. William Lilly's, are hieroglyphick
prophecies, viz. of the great plague of London, expressed
by graves and dead corpses ; and a scheme with ascending
(the sign of London) and no planets in the twelve houses.
Also there is a picture of London all on fire, also moles
creeping, &c. Perhaps Mr. Lilly might be contented to
have people believe that this was from himself. But Mr.
Thomas Flatman (poet) did affirm, that he had seen those
hieroglyphicks in an old parchment manuscript, writ in the
time of the monks.

* Monarchy : or, No Monarchy, 4to.

122 PROPHESIES.

In the nave of the cathedral church at Wells, above the
capitals of two pillars, are the head of the King, and the
head of a Bishop : it was foretold, that when a King should
be like that King, and a Bishop like that Bishop, that
Abbots should be put down, and Nuns should marry : above
the arch, is an abbot or monk, with his head hanging
downwards; and a nun with children about her. The
inside of the arch is painted blue, and adorned with stars,
to signify the power and influence of the stars. This
prophecy was writ in parchment, and hung in a table on
one of those pillars, before the civil wars. Dr. Duck
(who was chancellor of Wells) said, that he had seen a
copy of it among the records of the tower at London. It
was prophesied 300 years before the reformation. Bishop
Knight was Bishop here at the reformation, and the picture
(they say) did resemble him.

In the Spanish history, it is mentioned, that a vault
being opened in Spain, they found there Moors, heads, and
some writings that did express, when people resembling
those heads should come into Spain, they would conquer
that country : and it was so. See this story more at large
in James Howell's Letters.

There is a prophecy of William Tyndal, poor vicar of
Welling, in the county of Hertford, made in the beginning
of Queen Elizabeth's reign. I have seen it: it is in
English verse, two pages and an half in folio. It foretold
our late wars. I know one that read it forty years since.

PROPHESIES. 123

A Prophecy.

Sexte verere Deos ; vitce tibi terminus instat,
Cum tuus in media ar debit Carbunculus igne.

O thou sixth King to God due honours pay,
Remember Prince soon after thou'lt expire,

When thou behold'st thy carbuncle display,
Blaze against blaze amidst the red'ning fire.

These verses were made by George Buchanan; but
(perhaps) the prediction was made by some second-sighted
person. King James, of Scotland, the sixth, was taken
with an ague, at Trinity-College in Cambridge ; he re-
moved to Theobald's ; (where he died) sitting by the fire,
the carbuncle fell out of his ring into the fire, according to
the prediction. This distich is printed in the life of King
James.

Before the civil wars, there was much talk of the Lady
Anne Davys's prophesies ; for which she was kept prisoner
in the tower of London. She was sister to the Earl of
Castle-heaven, and wife to Sir John Davys, Lord Chief
Justice in Ireland ; I have heard his kinsman (Counsellor
Davys of Shaftesbury) say, that she being in London, (I
think in the tower) did tell the very time of her husband's
death in Ireland.

M I K A N D A.

UE English chronicles do record, that in the
reign of King Henry III. a child was born in
Kent, that at two years old cured all diseases.
Several persons have been cured of the

King's -evil by the touching, or handling of a seventh son.

It must be a seventh son, and no daughter between, and

in pure wedlock.

Samuel Scot, seventh son of Mr. William Scot of
Hedington in Wiltshire, did when a child, wonderful cures
by touching only, viz. as to the King's-evil, wens, &c. but
as he grew to be a man, the virtue did decrease, and had
he lived longer, perhaps might have been spent. A ser-
vant boy of his father's was also a seventh son, but he
could do no cures at all. I am very well satisfied of the
truth of this relation, for I knew him very well, and his
mother was my kinswoman.

'Tis certain, the touch of a dead hand, hath wrought
wonderful effects, e. g. One (a painter) of Stowel in

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Somersetshire, near Bridgewater, had a wen in the inside
of his cheek, as big as a pullet's egg, which by the advice
of one was cured by once or twice touching or rubbing
with a dead woman's hand, (e contra, to cure a woman, a
dead man's hand) he was directed first to say the Lord's
prayer, and to beg a blessing. He was perfectly cured in
a few weeks. I was at the man's house who attested it to
me, as also to the reverend Mr. Andrew Paschal, who went
with me.

Mr. Davys Mell, (the famous violinist and clock-maker)
had a child crook-backed, that was cured after the manner
aforesaid, which Dr. Ridgely, M.D. of the college of
physicians, averred in my hearing.

The curing of the King's-evil by the touch of the King,
does much puzzle our philosophers : for whether our Kings
were of the house of York, or Lancaster, it did the cure
(i. e.) for the most part. JTis true indeed at the touching
there are prayers read, but perhaps, neither the King
attends them nor his chaplains.

In Somersetshire, 'tis confidently reported, that some
were cured of the King's-evil, by the touch of the Duke of
Monmouth : the Lord Chancellor Bacon saith, " That
" imagination is next kin to miracle-working faith."

When King Charles I. was prisoner at Carisbrook
Castle, there was a woman touched by him, who had the
King's-evil in her eye> and had not seen in a fortnight

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before, her eye -lids being glued together : as they were at
prayers, (after the touching) the woman's eyes opened.
Mr. Seymer Bowman, with many others, were eye-witnesses
of this.

At Stretton in Hertfordshire, in anno 1648, when
King Charles I. was prisoner, the tenant of the Manor-
House there, sold excellent cyder to gentlemen of the
neighbourhood ; where they met privately, and could dis-
course freely, and be merry, in those days so troublesome
to the loyal party. Among others that met, there was
old Mr. Hill, B. D. parson of the parish, Quondam Fellow
of Brazen-Nose college in Oxford. This venerable good
old man, one day (after his accustomed fashion) standing
up, with his head uncovered to drink his majesty's health,
saying, " God bless our Gracious Sovereign," as he was
going to put the cup to his lips, a swallow flew in at the
window, and pitched on the brim of the little earthen cup
(not half a pint) and sipt, and so flew out again. This
was in the presence of the aforesaid parson Hill, Major
Gwillim, and two or three more, that I knew very well
then, my neighbours, and whose joint testimony of it I
have had more than once, in that very room. It was in
the bay-window in the parlour there ; Mr. Hill's back was
next to the window. I cannot doubt of the veracity of the
witnesses. This is printed in some book that I have seen,
I think in Dr. Fuller's Worthies. The cup is preserved
there still, as a rarity.

In Dr. Bolton's Sermons, is an account of the Lady

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Honywood, who despaired of her salvation. Dr. Bolton
endeavoured to comfort her : said she, (holding a Venice-
glass in her hand) I shall as certainly be damned, as this
glass will be broken : and at that word, threw it hard on
the ground; and the glass remained sound; which did
give her great comfort. The glass is yet preserved among
the Cimelia of the family. This lady lived to see descended
from her (I think) ninety, which is mentioned by Dr.
Bolton.

William Backhouse, of Swallowfield in Berkshire, Esq.
had an ugly scab that grew on the middle of his forehead,
which had been there for some years, and he could not be
cured ; it became so nauseous, that he would see none but
his intimate friends: he was a learned gentleman, a
chymist, and antiquary : his custom was, once every sum-
mer to travel to see Cathedrals, Abbeys, Castles, &c. In
his journey, being come to Peterborough, he dreamt there,
that he was in a church and saw a hearse, and that one
did bid him wet his scab, with the drops of the marble.
The next day he went to morning-service, and afterwards
going about the church, he saw the very hearse (which
was of black say, for Queen Katherine, wife to King
Henry VIII.) and the marble grave-stone by. He found
drops on the marble, and there were some cavities, wherein
he dipt his finger, and wetted the scab : in seven days it
was perfectly cured. This accurate and certain information,
I had from my worthy friend Elias Ashmole, Esq. who
called Mr. Backhouse father, and had this account from
hia own mouth. May-Dew is a great dissolvent.

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Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was
revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and
at the first coming of King Charles II. into St. James's
Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with
it ; which disturbed the King, but cured him. Mr. Ashmole
told it me.

In the year 1694, there was published)
A true Kelation of the wonderful Cure of Mary Mallard,
(lame almost ever since she was born) on Sunday the 26th
of November 1693.

With the affidavits and Certificates of the girl, and
several other credible and worthy persons, who knew her
both before and since her being cured. To which is added,
a Letter from Dr. Welwood, to the Bight Honourable the
Lady Mayoress, upon that subject. London printed for
Richard Baldwin, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane,
1694.

A narrative of the late extraordinary cure, wrought in
an instant upon Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, (lame from her
birth) without using of any natural means.

With the affidavits which were made before the Eight
Honourable the Lord Mayor; and the certificates of
several credible persons, who knew her both before and
since her cure.

Enquired into with all its circumstance's, by noted divines,

MIRANDA. 129

both of the church of England, and others : and by eminent
physicians of the college : and many persons of quality,
who have expressed their full satisfaction.

With an appendix, attempting to prove, that miracles
are not ceased. London, printed for John Dunton at the
Eaven, and John Harris at the Harrow, in the Poultry.
The London divines would have my annotations of these
two maids expunged.*

* " This Eliza Savage is still lame. It seems my Lord Mayor
of London and Ministers may be imposed on." MS. Note in a
copy of the first edition in the Library of the Royal Society.

MAGICK.

Barbary are wizards, who do smear their
hands with some black ointment, and then
do hold them up to the sun, and in a short
time you shall see delineated in that black
stuff, the likeness of what you desire to have an answer of.
It was desired to know, whether a ship was in safety, or
no? there appeared in the woman's hand the perfect
lineaments of a ship under sail. This Mr. ~W. Cl. a mer-
chant of London, who was factor there several years, pro-
tested to me, that he did see. He is a person worthy of
belief.

A parallel method to this is used in England, by putting
the white of a new laid egg in a beer glass, and expose it
to the sun in hot weather, as August, when the sun is in
Leo, and they will perceive their husband's profession.

There are wonderful stories of the Bannians in India,
viz. of their predictions, cures, &c. of their charming cro-
codiles, and serpents : and that one of them walked over

MAGI OK. 131

an arm of the sea, he was seen in the middle, and never
heard of afterwards.

The last summer, on the day of St. John the Baptist,
1694, I accidentally was walking in the pasture behind
Montague house, it was 12 o'clock. I saw there about
two or three and twenty young women, most of them well
habited, on then- knees very busy, as if they had been
weeding. I could not presently learn what the matter
was ; at last a young man told me, that they were looking
for a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their
head that night, and they should dream who would be their
husbands : It was to be sought for that day and hour.

The women have several magical secrets handed down
to them by tradition, for this purpose, as, on St. Agnes'
night, 21st day of January, take a row of pins, and pull
out every one, one after another, saying a Pater Noster, or
(Our Father) sticking a pin in your sleeve, and you will
dream of him, or her, you shall marry. Ben Johnson in
one of his Masques makes some mention of this.

And on sweet Saint Agnes night
Please you with the promis'd sight,
Some of husbands, some of lovers,
Which an empty dream discovers.

Another. To Tcnow whom one shall marry.
You must lie in another county, and knit the left garter
about the right legged stocking (let the other garter and

132 MAGICK.

stocking alone) and as you rehearse these following verses,
at every comma, knit a knot.

This knot I knit,

To know the thing, I know not yet,

That I may see,

The man (woman) that shall my hushand (wife) be,

How he goes, and what he wears,

And what he does, all days, and years.

Accordingly in your dream you will see him : if a mu-
sician, with a lute or other instrument ; if a scholar, with
a book or papers.

A gentlewoman that I knew, confessed in my hearing,
that she used this method, and dreamt of her husband
whom she had never seen : about two or three years after,
as she was on Sunday at church, (at our Lady's church in
Sarum) up pops a young Oxonian in the pulpit : she cries
out presently to her sister, this is the very face of the man
that I saw in my dream. Sir William Soames's Lady did
the like.

Another way, is, to charm the moon thus : at the first
appearance of the new moon* after new year's day, go out
in the evening, and stand over the spars of a gate or stile,
looking on the moon and say,t

All hail to the moon, all hail to thee,

* Some say any other new moon is as good.

f In Yorkshire they kneel on a ground-fast stone.

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I prithee good moon reveal to me,

Tliis night, who my husband (wife) must be.

You must presently after go to bed.

I knew two gentlewomen that did thus when they were
young maids, and they had dreams of those that married
them.

Alexander Tralianus, of curing diseases by spells, charms,
&c. is cited by Casaubon, before John Dee's Book of
Spirits : it is now translated out of the Greek into English.

Moreri's Great Historical, Geographical, and Poetical
Dictionary. Abracadabra, a mysterious word, to which the
superstitious in former times attributed a magical power to
expel diseases, especially the tertian-ague, worn about their
neck in this manner.

Some think, that Basilides, the inventor, intends the
name of GOD by it. The method of the cure was pre-
scribed in these verses.

Inscribes Chartce quod dicitur Abracadabra
ScepiuSj $f subter repetes, sed detrahe summam
Et magis atque magis desint elementa figuris
Singula quce semper copies <$f cceterafiges,
Donee in angustum redigatur Litera Conum,
His Una nexis collo redimire memento.
Talia languentis conducent Vincula collo,
Lethalesque abigent (miranda potentia) morbos.

134 MAGICK.

Abracadabra, strange mysterious word,
In order writ, can wond'rous cures afford.
This be the rule : — a scrip of parchment take,
Cut like a pyramid revers'd in make.
Abracadabra, first at length you name,
Line under line, repeating still the same :
But at its end, each line, one letter less,
Must then its predecessor line express ;
'Till less'ning by degrees the charm descends
With conic form, and in a letter ends.
Round the sick neck the finish'd wonder tie,
And pale disease must from the patient fly.

Mr. Schoot, a German, hath an excellent book of magick :
it is prohibited in that country. I have here set down three
spells, which are much approved.

To cure an Ague.

Write this following spell in parchment, and wear it
about your neck. It must be writ triangularly.

ABRACADABRA

ABRACADABR

ABRACADAB

ABRACADA

ABRACAD

ABRACA

ABRAC

ABRA

ABR

AB

A

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With this spell, one of Wells, hath cured above a hundred
of the ague.

To cure the biting of a Mad-Dog, write tliese words in

paper, viz.

Rebus Rubus Epitepscum, and give it to the party, or
heast bit, to eat in bread, <fcc. A Gentleman of good
quality, and a sober grave person, did affirm, that this
receipt never fails.

To cure the Tooth- AcJi : out of Mr. Ashmole's

manuscript writ with his own hand.

Mars, Tiur, dbursa, aburse.

Jesu Christ for Mary's sake,
Take away this Tooth-Ach.

Write the words three times ; and as you say the words,
let the party burn one paper, then another, and then the
last. " He says, he saw it experimented, and the party
" immediately cured."

Mr. Ashmole told me, that a woman made use of a spell
to cure an ague, by the advice of Dr. Nepier ; a minister
came to her, and severely repremanded her, for making
use of a diabolical help, and told her, she was in danger of
damnation for it, and commanded her to burn it. She did
so, and her distemper returned severely; insomuch that
she was importunate with the Doctor to use the same again ;
she used it, and had ease. But the parson hearing of it,

136 MAGICK.

came to her again, and thundered hell and damnation, and
frighted her so, that she burnt it again. Whereupon she
fell extremely ill, and would have had it a third time ; hut
the Doctor refused, saying, that she had contemned and
slighted the power and goodness of the hlessed spirits (or
Angels) and so she died. The cause of the Lady Hony-
wood's Desparation, was that she had used a spell to cure
her.

Jamblicus de Mysteriis de nominibus Divinis.
Porphyrius querit, cur Sacer dotes utantur nominibus qui-
busdam nihil signiftcantibus ? Jamblicus respondet, omnia
ejusmodi nomina significarealiquid apuddeos : quamvis in
quibusdam significata nobis sint ignota, esse tamen nota
qucedam, quorum interpretationem divinitus accepimus,
omnino vero modum ineis significandi ineffabilem esse.
Neque secundum imaginationes humanas, sed secundum
intellectum qui in nobis est, divinus, vel potius simpliciore
prcestantiorieque modo secundum intellectum diis unitum.
Auferendum igitur omnes eoccogitationes £f rationales dis-
cursus, atque assimulationes naturalis vocis ipsius con-
genitas, ad res positas innatum. Et quemadmodum cha-
racter symbolicus divince similitudinis in se intellectualis
est, atque divinus, ita Tiunc ipsum in omnibus supponnere,
accipereque debemus, &c.

Jamblicus, concerning the Mysteries relating to

divine names.

Porphyrius asks the question why Priests make use of
certain names which carry with them no known import or
signification ? Jamblicus replies, that all and every of those

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sort of names have their respective significations among the
Gods, and that though the things signified hy some of
them remain to us unknown, yet there are some which
have come to our knowledge, the interpretation of which
we have received from above. But that the manner of
signifying by them, is altogether ineffable. Not according
to human imaginations, but according to that divine intellect
which reigns within us, or rather according to an intellect
that has an union with the Gods, in a more simple and
excellent manner. And whereas the symbolical character
of the divine likeness is in it self intellectual and divine, so
are we to take and suppose it to be, in all, &c.

To cure an Ague, Tertian or Quartan.
Gather Cinquefoil in a good aspect of ^J to the D , and
let the Moon be in the Mid-Heaven, if you can, and take

of the powder of it in white wine : if it be not thus

gathered according to the rules of astrology, it hath little or
no virtue in it. With this receipt — one Bradley, a quaker
at Kingston Wick upon Thames, (near the bridge end)
hath cured above an hundered.

To cure the Thrush.

There is a certain piece in the beef, called the mouse-
piece, which given to the child, or party so affected to eat,
doth certainly cure the thrush. From an experienced
midwife.

Another to cure a Thrush.

Take a living frog, and hold it in a cloth, that it does
not go down into the child's mouth ; and put the head into

138 HAGICK.

the child's mouth 'till it is dead ; and then take another
frog, and do the same.

To cure the Tooth-Ach.

Take a new nail, and make the gum bleed with it, and
then drive it into an oak. This did cure William Neal's
son, a very stout gentleman, when he was almost mad
with the pain, and had a mind to have pistolled himself.

For the Jaundice.

The jaundice is cured, by putting the urine after the
first sleep, to the ashes of the ash-tree, bark of barberries.

To cure a Bullock, that hath the Whisp, (that is) lame

between the Glees.

Take the impression of the bullock's foot in the earth,
where he hath trod ; then dig it up, and stick therein five
or seven thorns on the wrong side, and then hang it on a
bush to dry : and as that dries, so the bullock heals. This
never fails for wisps. From Mr. Pacy, a yeoman in Surry.

To cure a Beast that is sprung, (that is) poisoned.

It lights mostly upon Sheep.

Take the little red spider, called a tentbob, (not so big
as a great pins-head) the first you light upon in the spring
of the year, and rub it in the palm of your hand all to pieces :
and having so done, piss on it, and rub it in, and let it dry ;
then come to the beast and make water in your hand, and
throw it in his mouth. It cures in a matter of an hour's
time. This rubbing serves for a whole year, and it is no

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danger to the hand. The chiefest skill is to know whether
the beast be poisoned or no. From Mr. Pacy.

To stanch Bleeding.

Cut an ash of one, two, or three years growth, at the very
hour and minute of the sun's entring into Taurus : a chip
of this applied will stop it ; if it is a shoot, it must be cut
from the ground. Mr. Nicholas Mercator, astronomer,
told me that he had tried it with effect. Mr. G. W. says
the stick must not be bound or holden ; but dipped or
wetted in the blood. When King James II. was at Salis-
bury, 1688, his nose bled near two days; and after many
essays in vain, was stopped by this sympathetick ash, which
Mr. William Nash, a surgeon in Salisbury, applied.

Against an evil Tongue.

Take Unguentumpopuleum and Vervain, and Hypericon,
and put a red hot iron into it ; you must anoint the back
bone, or wear it on your breast. This is printed in Mr.
W. Lilly's Astrology. Mr. H. C. hath tried this receipt
with good success.

Vervain and dill,

Hinders witches from their will.

A house (or chamber) somewhere in London, was
haunted ; the curtains would be rashed at night, and aVake
the gentleman that lay there, who was musical, and a
familiar acquaintance of Henry Lawes. Henry Lawes to
be satisfied did lie with him ; and the curtains were rashed

140 MAGICK.

so then. The gentleman grew lean and pale with the

frights ; one Dr. cured the house of this disturbance,

and Mr. Lawes said, that the principal ingredient was
Hypericon put under his pillow.

In Herefordshire, and other parts, they do put a cold
iron bar upon their barrels, to preserve their beer from
being soured by thunder. This is a common practice in
Kent.

To hinder the night mare, they hang in a string, a flint
with a hole in it (naturally) by the manger ; but best of all
they say, hung about their necks, and a flint will do it that
hath not a hole in it. It is to prevent the night mare, viz.
the hag from riding their horses, who will sometimes sweat
all night. The flint thus hung does hinder it.

Mr. Sp. told me that his horse which was bewitched,
would break bridles and strong halters, like a. Sampson.
They filled a bottle of the horse's urine, stopped it with a
cork and bound it fast in, and then buried it under ground :
and the party suspected to be the witch, fell ill, that he
could not make water, of which he died. When they took
up the bottle, the urine was almost gone ; so, that they
did believe, that if the fellow could have lived a little
longer, he had recovered.

It is a thing very common to nail horse-shoes on the
thresholds of doors : which is to hinder the power of witches
that enter into the house. Most houses of the West end

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of London, have the horse-shoe on the threshold. It
should he a horse-shoe that one finds. In the Bermudas,
they use to put an iron into the fire when a witch comes
in. Mars is enemy to Saturn. There are very memorable
stories of witches in Gages Survey of the West-Indies of
his own Knowledge : which see.

At Paris when it begins to thunder and lighten, they do
presently ring out the great bell at the Abbey of St. Ger-
main, which they do believe makes it cease. The like
was wont to be done heretofore in Wiltshire ; when it
thundered and lightened, they did ring St. Aldhelm's bell,
at Malmsbury Abbey. The curious do say, that the ring-
ing of bells exceedingly disturbs spirits.

In the Golden Legend by W. de Worde. It is said
the evill spirytes that ben in the regyon of thayre doubte
moche whan they here the belles rongen. And this is the
cause why the belles ben rongen whan it thondreth, and
whan grete tempeste and outrages of wether happen to the
ende that the feudes and wycked spirytes shold be abasshed,
and flee and cease of the movynge of tempeste. Fol. xxiv.

TRANSPORTATION BY AN

INVISIBLE POWER.

A Letter from the Reverend Mr. Andrew Paschal, B.D.
Hector of Chedzoy in Somersetshire) to John Aubrey,
Esq. at Gresham College, London.

SIR,

LAST week received a letter from a learned
friend, the minister of Barnstable in Devon,
which I think worthy your perusal. It was
dated May 3, 1683, and is as follows. (He
was of my time in Queen's College, Cambridge.)

There having been many prodigious things performed
lately in a parish adjoining to that which Bishop Sparrow
presented me to, called Cheriton-Bishop, by some discon-
tented daemon, I can easily remember that I owe you an
account thereof, in lieu of that which you desired of me,
and which I could not serve you in.

About November last, in the parish of Spreyton in the
county of Devon, there appeared in a field near the dwelling

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house of Philip Furze, to his servant Francis Fry, being
of the age of twenty-one, next August, an aged gentleman
with a pole in his hand, and like that he was wont to carry
about with him when living, to kill moles withal, who told
the young man he should not be afraid of him ; but should
tell his master, i. e. his son, that several legacies that he
had bequeathed were unpaid, naming ten shillings to one,
ten shillings to another, &c. Fry replied, that the party
he last named was dead. The Spectrum replied, he knew
that, but said it must be paid to (and named) the next
relation. These things being performed, he promised he
would trouble him no further. These small legacies were
paid accordingly. But the young man having carried
twenty shillings ordered by the Spectrum to his sister
Mrs. Furze, of the parish of Staverton near Totness, which
money the gentlewoman refused to receive, being sent her,
as she said, from the Devil. The same night Fry lodging
there, the Spectrum appeared to him again, whereupon
Fry challenged his promise not to trouble him, and said he
had done all he desired him ; but that Mrs. Furze would
not receive the money. The Spectrum replied, that is true
indeed; but bid him ride to Totness and buy a ring of
that value, and that she would take. Which was provided
for her and received by her. Then Fry rode homewards
attended by a servant of Mrs. Furze. But being come
into Spreyton parish, or rather a little before, he seemed
to carry an old gentlewoman behind him, that often threw
him off his horse, and hurried him with such violence, as
astonished all that saw him, or heard how horridly the
ground was beaten; and being come into his master's

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yard, Fry's horse (a mean beast) sprung at once twenty-
five feet. The trouble from the man-spectre ceased from
this time. But the old gentlewoman, Mrs. Furze, Mr.
Furze's second wife, whom the Spectre at his first appear-
ance to Fry, called, that wicked woman my wife, (though
I knew her, and took her for a very good woman) presently
after appears to several in the house, viz. to Fry, Mrs.
Thomasin Gidley, Anne Langdon, born in my parish, and
to a little child which was forced to be removed from the
house ; sometimes in her own shape, sometimes in shapes
more horrid, as of a dog belching fire, and of a horse, and
seeming to ride out of the window, carrying only one pane
of glass away, and a little piece of iron. After this Fry's
head was thrust into a narrow space, where a man's fist
could not enter, between a bed and a wall ; and forced to
be taken thence by the strength of men, all bruised and
bloody ; upon this it was thought fit to bleed him ; and
after that was done, the binder was removed from his arm,
and conveyed about his middle, and presently was drawn
so very straight, it had almost killed him, and was cut
asunder, making an ugly uncouth noise. Several other
times with handkerchiefs, cravats and other things he was
near strangled, they were drawn so close upon his throat.
He lay one night in his periwig (in his master's chamber,
for the more safety) which was torn all to pieces. His
best periwig he inclosed in a little box on the inside with a
joined-stool, and other weight upon it ; the box was snap-
ped asunder, and the wig torn all to flitters. His master
saw his buckles fall all to pieces on his feet. But first I
should have told you the fate of his shoe strings, one of

INVISIBLE POWER. 145

which a gentlewoman greater than all exception, assured
me, that she saw it come out of his shoe, without any
visible hand, and fling itself to the farther end of the room ;
the other was coming out too, but that a maid prevented
and helped it out, which crisped and curled about her hand
like a living eel. The cloaths worn by Anne Langdon
and Fry, (if their own) were torn to pieces on their backs.
The same gentlewoman, being the daughter of the minister
of the parish, Mr. Roger Specott, showed me one of Fry's
gloves, which was torn in his pocket while she was by. I
did view it near and narrowly, and do seriously confess
that it is torn so very accurately in all the seams and in
other places, and laid abroad so artificially, and it is so
dexterously tattered, (and ah1 done in the pocket in a
minute's time) as nothing human could have done it ; no
cutler could have made an engine to do it so. Other fan-
tastical freeks have been very frequent, as the marching of
a great barrel full of salt out of one room into another ; an
andiron laying it self over a pan of milk that was scalding
on the fire, and two flitches of bacon descending from the
chimney where they hung, and laid themselves over that
andiron. The appearing of the Spectrum (when in her
own shape) in the same cloaths, to seeming, which Mrs.
Furze her daughter-in-law has on. The intangling of
Fry's face and legs, about his neck, and about the frame
of the chairs, so as they have been with great difficulty
disengaged.

But the most remarkable of all happened in that day
that I passed by the door in my return hither, which was

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146 TRANSPORTATION BY AN

Easter-eve, when Fry returning from work (that little he
can do) he was caught by the woman spectre by the skirts
of his doublet, and carried into the air; he was quickly
missed by his master and the workmen, and great enquiry
was made for Francis Fry, but no hearing of him; but
about half-an-hour after Fry was heard whistling and
singing in a kind of a quagmire. He was now affected as
he was wont to be in his fits, so that none regarded what
he said ; but coming to himself an hour after, he solemnly
protested, that the daemon carried him so high that he saw
his master's house underneath him no bigger than a hay-
cock, that he was in perfect sense, and prayed God not to
suffer the Devil to destroy him ; that he was suddenly set
down in that quagmire. The workmen found one shoe on
one side of the house, and the other shoe on the other side ;
his perriwig was espied next morning hanging on the top
of a tall tree. It was soon observed, that Fry's part of
his body that had laid in the mud, was much benumed,
and therefore the next Saturday, which was the eve of
Low-Sunday they carried him to Crediton to be let blood ;
which being done, and the company having left him for a
little while, returning they found him in a fit, with his
forehead all bruised and swoln to a great bigness, none
able to guess how it came, till he recovered himself, and
then he told them, that a bird flew in at the window with
a great force, and with a stone in its mouth flew directly
against his forehead. The people looked for it, and found
on the ground just under where he sat, not a stone, but a
weight of brass or copper, which the people were breaking,
and parting it among themselves. He was so very ill,

INVISIBLE POWER. 147

that he could ride but one mile or little more that night,
since which time I have not heard of him, save that he was
ill handled the next day, being Sunday. Indeed Sir, you
may wonder that I have not visited that house, and the
poor afflicted people ; especially, since I was so near, and
passed by the very door : but besides that, they have called
to their assistance none but nonconforming ministers. I
was not qualified to be welcome there, having given Mr.
Furze a great deal of trouble the last year about a con-
venticle in his house, where one of this parish was the
preacher. But I am very well assured of the truth of what
I have written, and (as more appears) you shah1 hear from
me again.

I had forgot to tell you that Fry's mother came to me,
grievously bewailing the miserable condition of her son.
She told me, that the day before he had five pins thrust
into his side. She asked ; and I gave her the best advice
I could. Particularly, that her son should declare all that
the spectre, especially the woman gave him in charge, for
I suspect, there is aliquid latens ; and that she should
remove him thence by all means. But I fear that she will
not do it. For I hear that Anne Langdon is come into
my parish to her mother, and that she is grievously troubled
there. I might have written as much of her, as of Fry,
for she had been as ill treated, saving the aerial journey.
Her fits and obsessions seem to be greater, for she screeches
in a most hellish tone. Thomasin Gidley (though re-
moved) is in trouble as I hear.

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Sir, this is an my friend wrote. This letter came in-
dosed in another from a clergyman, my friend, who fires
in those parts. He teJk me aH the relations he receires
from drrers persons firing in Spreyton and the neigh-
bouring parishes, agree with this. He spake with a gen-
tleman of good fashion, that was at Crediton when Fry
wa*ynodrJ,a»d saw the stone that braised his forehead;
but he did not can it copper or brass, bat said it was a
strange mineral. That gentleman promised to make a
strict inquiry on the place into all particulars, and to give
him the result : which my friend also promises me ; with
hopes that he shall procure for me a piece of that mineral
substance, which hurt his forehead.

The ******** of my friend's sending me this narratrre,
was my entreating him sometime since, to inquire into a
thing of this nature, that lii|fifaii m Barnstable, where
he lires. An account was giren to me long since, h fills
a sheet or two, which I hare by me: and to gratify Mr.
GlanrQ who k collecting histories for his Saddvciswnu
TriwmphatM*. I desired to hare it wefl attested, it being
fun of rery memorable dungs ; bat it seems he could meet
•ly i eeacral BMMB! • M ftc InA .: AB tihagi : Ac
reports rarying m the carnmstances.

Sir,Yc

IN VISIBLE PO WER. 149

A Copy of a Letter from a learned Friend of mine in
SCOTLAND, dated Mardi 25, 1695.

HONOURED SIB,

I RECEIVED youra dated May 24, 1694, in which you
desire me to send you some instances and examples of
Transportation by an Invisible Power. The true cause of
my delaying so long, to reply to that letter, was not want
of kindness ; but of fit materials for such a reply.

As soon as I read your letter of May 24, 1 called to
mind, a story which I heard long ago, concerning one of
the Lord Duffus, (in the shire of Murray) his predicessors,
of whom it is reported, that upon a time, when he was
walking abroad in the fields near to his own house, he was
suddenly carried away, and found the next day at Paris in
the French King's cellar, with a silver cup in his hand ;
that being brought into the King's presence and questioned
by him, who he was ? and how he came thither ? he told
his name, his country, and the place of his residence, and
that on such a day of the month (which proved to be the
day immediately preceding) being in the fields, he heard
the noise of a whirl-wind, and of voices crying Horse and
Hattock, (this is the word which the fairies are said to use
when they remove from any place) whereupon he cried
(Horse and Hattock) also, and was immediately caught
up, and transported through the air, by the fairies to that
place, where after he had drank heartily he fell asleep, and
before he awoke, the rest of the company were gone, and
had left him in posture wherein he was found. It is said,

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the King gave him the cup which was found in his hand,
and dismissed him.

This story (if it could he sufficiently attested) would he
a noble instance for your purpose, for which cause I was
at some pains to enquire into the truth of it, and found the
means to get the present Lord Duffus's opinion thereof ;
which shortly is, that there has been, and is such a tradi-
tion, but that he thinks it fabulous ; this account of it, his
Lordship had from his father, who told him that he had it
from his father, the present Lord's grandfather ; there is
yet an old silver cup in his Lordship's possession still,
which is called the Fairy Cup ; but has nothing engraven
upon it, except the arms of the family.

The gentleman, by whose means I came to know the
Lord Duffus's sentiment of the foregoing story, being tutor
to his Lordship's eldest son, told me another little passage
of the same nature, whereof he was an eye witness. He
reports, that when he was a boy at school in the town of
Torres, yet not so young, but that he had years and capa-
city; both to observe and remember that which fell out;
he and his school-fellows were upon a time whipping their
tops in the church-yard before the door of the church ;
though the day was calm, they heard a noise of a wind,
and at some distance saw the small dust begin to arise and
turn round, which motion continued, advancing till it came
to the place where they were ; whereupon they began to
bless themselves : but one of their number (being it seems
a little more bold and confident than his companions) said,

INVISIBLE POWER. 151

Horse and Hattock with my top, and immediately they all
saw the top lifted up from the ground ; but could not see
what way it was carried, by reason of a cloud of dust which
was raised at the same time : they sought for the top all
about the place where it was taken up, but in vain ; and it
was found afterwards in the church-yard, on the other side
of the church. Mr. Steward (so is the gentleman called)
declared to me that he had a perfect remembrance of this
matter.

The following account I received, November last, from
Mr. Alexander Mowat, a person of great integrity and
judgment, who being minister at the church at Lesley, in
the shire of Aberdene, was turned out for refusing the oath
of test, anno 1681. He informs, that he heard the late
Earl of Caithness, who was married to a daughter of the
late Marquis of Argyle, tell the following story, viz. That
upon a time, when a vessel which his Lordship kept for
bringing home wine and other provisions for his house, was
at sea; a common fellow, who was reputed to have the
second-sight, being occasionally at his house; the Earl
Enquired of him, where his men (meaning those in the
ship) were at that present time? the fellow replied, at
such a place, by name, within four hours sailing of the
harbour, which was not far from the place of his Lordship's
residence: the Earl asked, what evidence he could give
for that-? the other replied, that he had lately been at the
place, and had brought away with him one of the seamen's
caps, which he delivered to his Lordship. At the four
hours end, the Earl went down himself to the harbour,

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where he found the ship newly arrived, and in it one of the
seamen without his cap ; who being questioned, how he
came to lose his cap ? answered, that at such a place (the
same the second-sighted man had named before) there
arose a whirl-wind which endangered the ship, and carried
away his cap : the Earl asked, if he would know his cap
when he saw it ? he said he would ; whereupon the Earl
produced the cap, and the seaman owned it for that, which
was taken from him.

This is all the information which I can give at present
concerning Transportation by an Invisible Power. I am
sorry that I am able to contribute so little to the publishing
of so curious a piece as it seems your collection of Her-
metick Philosophy will be. I have given instructions to
an acquaintance of mine now living at Kirkwall, and took
him engaged when he left this place, to inform him con-
cerning the old stone monuments, the plants and cures in
the Orcades, and to send me an account. But I have not
heard from him as yet, though I caused a friend that was
writing to him, to put him in mind of his promise; the
occasions of correspondence betwixt this place and Orkney
are very rare.

Sin,

Your faithful affectionate friend
And servant,

J. G.

Sm,

'Tis very likely my Lord Keeper, [North] (if an account
of a thing so considerable, hath not been presented to him

INVISIBLE POWER. 153

by another hand) will take it kindly from you. I would
transcribe it for Dr. Henry More, to whom, as I remember,
I promised some time since an account of the Barnstable
apparition ; but my hands are full of work. May I beg
of you to visit Dr. Whitchcot, minister of St. Laurence
church, and to communicate a sight of this letter from
Barnstable : probably he will be willing to make his servant
transcribe it, and to convey it to Dr. More. Pray present
my humble service to him, as also my affectionate service
to our friends Mr. Hook and Mr. Lodwick. I ever rest,

SIB,

Your most faithful

And affectionate servant,
-Chedzoy. ANDREW PASCHAL.

THEBE was in Scotland one (an obsessus) carried in

the air several times in the view of several persons, his
fellow-soldiers. Major Henton hath seen him carried away
from the guard in Scotland, sometimes a mile or two.
Sundry persons are living now, (1671) that can attest this
story. I had it from Sir Eobert Harley (the son) who
married Major Henton's widow ; as also from E. T. D. D.

A gentleman of my acquaintance, Mr. M. was in Por-
tugal, anno, 1655, when one was burnt by the inquisition
for being brought thither from Goa, in East-India, in the
air, in an incredible short time.

VISIONS IN A BEEYL OR
CEYSTAL.

BERYL is a kind of Crystal that hath a
weal tincture of red ; it is one of the twelve
stones mentioned in the Revelation. I have
heard,* that spectacles were first made of
this stone, which is the reason that the Germans do call a
spectacle-glass (or pair of spectacles) a Brill.

Dr. Pocock of Oxford, in his Commentary on Hosea,
hath a learned discourse of the Urim and Thummim ; as
also Dr. Spenser of Cambridge. That the priest had his
visions in the stone of the breast plate.

The Prophets had their seers, viz. young youths who
were to behold those visions, of whom Mr. Abraham Cowley
writes thus.

With hasty wings, time present they out-fly,
And tread the doubtful maze of destiny ;

* Dr. J. Pell.

VISIONS IN A BERYL OR CRYSTAL. 155

There walk and sport among the years to come,
And with quick eye pierce every causes womb.

The magicians now use a crystal sphere, or mineral
pearl, as No. 3, for
this purpose, which is
inspected by a boy,
or sometimes by the

querent himself.

JSo. 3.

There are certain formulas of prayer to be used, before
they make the inspection, which they term a call. In a
manuscript of Dr. Forman of Lambeth, (which Mr. Elias
Ashmole had) is a discourse of this, and the prayer. Also
there is the call which Dr. JNepier did use.

James Harrington (author of Oceana) told me that the
Earl of Denbigh, then Ambassador at Venice, did tell him,
that one did shew him there several times in a glass, things
past and to come.

When Sir Marmaduke Langdale was in Italy, he went
to one of those Magi, who did shew him a glass, where he
saw himself kneeling before a crucifix: he was then a
Protestant ; afterwards he became a Roman Catholick.
He told Mr. Thomas Henshaw, E.S.S., this himself.

I have here set down the figure of a consecrated Beryl,

156

VISIONS IN A

as No. 4, now in the pos-
session of Sir Edward Har-
ley, Knight of the Bath,
which he keeps in his closet
at Brampton-Bryan in He-
refordshire, amongst his
Cimelia, which I saw there.
It came first from Norfolk ;
a minister had it there, and
a call was to be used with
it. Afterwards a miller had
it, and both did work great
cures with it, (if curable)
and in the Beryl they did
see, either the receipt in
writing, or else the herb.
To this minister, the spirits
or angels would appear
openly, and because the
miller (who was his familiar
friend) one day happened
to see them, he gave him the
aforesaid Beryl and Call :
by these angels the minister
was forewarned of his death.
This account I had from

Mr. Ashmole. Afterwards this Beryl came into some-
body's hand in London, who did tell strange things by it ;
insomuch that at last he was questioned for it, and it was
taken away by authority, (it was about 1645.)

No. 4.

BERYL OR CRYSTAL. 157

This Beryl is a perfect sphere, the diameter of it I guess
to he something more than an inch : it is set in a ring, or
circle of silver resembling the meridian of a globe : the
stem of it is about ten inches high, all gilt. At the four
quarters of it are the names of four angels, viz. Uriel,
Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. On the top is a cross patee.

Sam. Boisardus hath writ a book de Divinatione per
Crystdllum.

A clothier's widow of Pembridge in Herefordshire,
desired Dr. Sherborne (one of the canons of the church of
Hereford, and rector of Pembridge) to look over her hus-
band's writings after his decease : among other things he
found a call for a crystal. The clothier had his cloths
oftentimes stolen from his racks ; and at last obtained this
trick to discover the thieves. So when he lost his cloths,
he went out about midnight with his crystal and call, and
a little boy, or little maid with him (for they say it must
be a pure virgin) to look in the crystal, to see the likeness
of the person that committed the theft. The doctor did
burn the call, 1671.

VISIONS WITHOUT A GLASS OR
CRYSTAL.

BOUT the latter end of the reign of King

James I. one a taylor in London, had

several visions, which he did describe to a
painter to paint, and he writ the description
himself in an ill taylor-like hand, in false English, but
legible : it was at least a quire of paper. I remember one
vision is of St. James's park, where is the picture of an
altar and crucifix. Mr. Butler of the toy-shop by Ludgate,
(one of the masters of Bridewell) had the book in anno
1659 ; the then Earl of Northampton gave five pounds for
a copy of it.

CONVEESE WITH ANGELS
AND SPIRITS.

E. EICHAED NEPIEE was a person of
great abstinence, innocence, and piety : he
spent every day two hours in family prayer :
when a patient or querent came to him, he
presently went to his closet to pray: and told to admi-
ration the recovery, or death of the patient. It appears
by his papers, that he did converse with the angel Raphael,
who gave him the responses.

Elias Ashmole, Esq. had all his papers, where is con-
tained all his practice for about fifty years ; which he, Mr.
Ashmole, carefully bound up, according to the year of our

Lord, in volumes in folio ; which are now reposited

in the library of the Musaeum in Oxford. Before the re-
sponses stands this mark, viz. E. Eis. which Mr. Ashmole
said was Responsum Raphcdis.

In these papers are many excellent medicines, or re-
ceipts for several diseases that his patients had ; and before
some of them is the aforesaid mark. Mr. Ashmole took

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the pains to transcribe fairly with his own hand all the
receipts ; they are about a quire and half of paper in folio,
which since his death were bought of his relict by E. W.
Esq. E.S.S.

The angel told him if the patient were curable or in-
curable.

There are also several other queries to the angel, as to
religion, transubstantiation, &c. which I have forgot. I
remember one is, whether the good spirits or the bad be
most in number ? B. Eis. The good.

It is to be found there, that he told John Prideaux, D.D.
anno 1621, that twenty years hence (1641) he would be a
bishop, and he was so, sc. bishop of Worcester.

E. Eis. did resolve him, that Mr. Booth, of in

Cheshire, should have a son that should inherit three years
hence, [sc. Sir George Booth, the first Lord Delamere]
viz. from 1619, Sir George Booth aforesaid was born,
December 18, anno 1622.

This I extracted out of Dr. Nepier's Original Diary,
then in possession of Mr. Ashmole.

When E. W. Esq. was about eight years old, he was
troubled with the worms. His grand father carried him
to Dr. Nepier at Lynford. Mr. E. W. peeped in at the
closet at the end of the gallery, and saw him upon his

ANGELS AND SPIRITS. 161

knees at prayer. The Doctor told Sir Francis that at
fourteen years old his grandson would be freed from that
distemper ; and he was so. The medicine he prescribed
was, to drink a little draught of Muscadine in the morning.
'Twas about 1625.

It is impossible that the prediction of Sir George Booth's
birth, could be found any other way, but by angelical re-
velation.

This Dr. Eichard Nepier was rector of Lynford in
Bucks, and did practise physick; but gave most to the
poor that he got by it. 'Tis certain he told his own death
to a day and hour ; he died praying upon his knees, being
of a very great age, April 1, 1634. He was nearly re-
lated to the learned Lord Nepier, Baron of M in

Scotland : I have forgot whether his brother. His knees
were horny with frequent praying. He left his estate to
Sir Richard Nepier, M.D. of the college of physicians,
London, from whom Mr. Ashmole had the Doctor's picture,
now in the Museum.

Dr. Kichard Nepier, rector of Lynford, was a good as-
trologer, and so was Mr. Marsh of Dunstable; but Mr.
Marsh did seriously confess to a friend of mine, that as-
trology was but the countenance; and that he did his
business by the help of the blessed spirits ; with whom
only men of great piety, humility and charity, could be
acquainted ; and such a one he was. He was an hundred
years old when my friend was with him ; and yet did un-
derstand himself very well.

M

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At Ashbridge in Buckinghamshire, near Berkamsted,
was a monastery, (now in the possession of the Earl of
Bridgewater) Avhere are excellent good old paintings still
to be seen. In this monastery was found an old manu-
script entitled Johannes de Rupescissd, since printed (or
part of it) a chymical book, wherein are many receipts ;
among others, to free a house haunted with evil spirits, by
fumes : Mr. Marsh had it, and did cure houses so haunted
by it. Ovid in his festivals hath something like it. See

Thesaurus Exorcismorum writ by e /Societate Jesu.

Oct. Wherein are several high physical and medicinal
things.

Good spirits are delighted and allured by sweet per-
fumes, as rich gums, frankincense, salts, &c. which was
the reason that priests of the Gentiles, and also the Chris-
tians used them in their temples, and sacrifices : and on
the contrary, evil spirits are pleased and allured and called
up by suffumigations of Henbane, (fee. stinking smells, &c.
which the witches do use in their conjuration. Toads
(saturnine animals) are killed by putting of salt upon them ;
I have seen the experiment. Magical writers say, that
cedar-wood drives away evil spirits ; it was, and is much
used in magnificent temples.

Plinii Natural Hist. lib. 12, cap. 14.
Alexandra Magno in pueritia sine parsimonia thura
ingerenti aris, pcedagogus Leonides dixerat, ut illo modo,
cum devicisset thuriferas gentes, supplicaret. At ille
Arabia potitus ; thure onustam navim misit ei, large ex-
hortatus, ut Deos adoraret.

ANGELS AND SPIRITS. 163

i.e. As Alexander the great, in the time of his mino-
rity, was heaping incense upon the altars, even to a degree
of religious prodigality, his preceptor Leonidas told him,
that he should prefer his supplications to the Gods after
that free manner, when he had subdued the nations, whose
produce was frankincense. And he, as soon as he had
made himself master of Arabia, sent him accordingly a
ship laden with incense, and with it ample exhortations to
adore the Gods.

One says, why should one think the intellectual world
less peopled, than the. material? Pliny, in his Natural

History, lib. cap. tells us that in Africa, do

sometimes appear multitudes of aerial shapes, which sud-
denly vanish. Mr. Richard Baxter in his Certainty of the
Worlds of Spirits, (the last book he writ, not long before
his death) hath a discourse of angels ; and wonders they
are so little taken notice of ; he hath counted in Newman's
Concordance of the Bible, the word angel, in above three
hundred places.

Hugo Grotius in his Annotations on Jonah, speaking of
Niniveh, says, that history has divers examples, that after
a great and hearty humiliation, God delivered cities, <fec.
from their calamities. Some did observe in the late civil
wars, that the Parliament, after a humiliation, did shortly
obtain a victory. And as a three-fold chord is not easily
broken, so when a whole nation shall conjoin in fervent
prayer and supplication, it shall produce wonderful effects.
William Laud, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, in a sermon

164 ANGELS AND SPIRITS.

preached before the Parliament, about the beginning of
the reign of King Charles I. affirms the power of prayer
to be so great, that though there be a conjunction or op-
position of Saturn or Mars, (as there was one of them
then) it will overcome the malignity of it. In the life of
Vavasor Powel, is a memorable account of the effect of
fervent prayer, after an exceeding drought: and Mr.
Baxter (in his book aforementioned) hath several instances
of that kind, which see.

St. Michael and all Angels.

The Collect.

O everlasting God, who hast ordered and constituted the
services of men and angels, after a wonderful manner:
mercifully grant, that as thy holy angels always do thee
service in Heaven : so by thy appointment, they may suc-
cour and defend us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

COKPS-CANDLES IN WALES.

Part of a Letter to MR. BAXTER.

AM to give you the best satisfaction I can
touching those fiery apparitions* (Corps
Candles) which do as it were mark out the
way for corpses to their Kot/^rjjptov and
sometimes before the parties themselves fall sick, and
sometimes in their sickness. I could never hear in Eng-
land of these, they are common in these three counties,
viz. Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Pembroke, and as I hear
in some other parts of Wales. f

These ^avraffpara in our language, we call Canhwyllan
Cyrph, (i.e.) Corps Candles; and candles we call them,
not that we see any thing besides the light ; but because
that light doth as much resemble a material candle-light
as eggs do eggs, saving, that in their journey these candles
be modo apparentes, modo disparentes, especially, when
one comes near them ; and if one come in the way against
them, unto whom they vanish ; but presently appear be-

* Mr. Baxter'* Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits, p. 137.
f And Radnor.

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hind and hold on their course. If it be a little candle pale
or bluish, then follows the corps either of an abortive or
some infant; if a big one, then the corps of some one
come to age : if there be seen two, or three, or more, some
big, some small together, then so many and such corpses
together. If two candles come from divers places, and be
seen to meet, the corpses will the like; if any of these
candles are seen to turn, sometimes a little out of the way,
or path, that leadeth to the church, the following corps
will be forced to turn in that very place, for the avoiding
some dirty lane or plash, &c. Now let us fall to evidence.
Being about the age of fifteen, dwelling at Lanylar, late
at night, some neighbour saw one of these candles hovering
up and down along the river bank, until they were weary
in beholding it, at last they left it so, and went to bed.
A few weeks after came a proper damsel from Montgo-
meryshire, to see her friends, who dwelt on the other side
of that river Istwith, and thought to ford the river at that
very place where the light was seen ; being dissuaded by
some lookers on (some it is most likely of those that saw
the light) to adventure on the water, which was high by
reason of a flood : she walked up and down along the river
bank, even where, and even as the aforesaid candle did,
waiting for the falling of the water ; which at last she took,
but too soon for her, for she was drowned therein. Of
late my sexton's wife, an aged understanding woman, saw
from her bed, a little bluish candle on her tables-end ;
within two or three days after, came a fellow enquiring for
her husband, and taking something from under his cloak,
claped it down upon the table's end ; it was a dead born
child.

IN WALES. 167

Another time, the same woman saw such another candle
upon the end of the self same tahle ; within a few days
after a weak child newly christened by me, was brought to
the sexton's house, where presently he died: and when
the sexton's wife, who was then abroad, came home, she
found the child on the other end of the table, where she
had seen the candle.

Some thirty or forty years since, my wife's sister, being
nurse to Baronet Rudd's three eldest children, and (the
Lady mistress being dead) the Lady comptroller of the
house going late into the chamber where the maid servants
lay, saw no less than five of those lights together. It
happened a while after, that the chamber being newly
plaistered, and a grate of coal fire therein kindled to hasten
the drying of the plaister, that five of the maid servants
went to bed as they were wont (but as it fell out) too soon ;
for in the morning they were all dead, being suffocated in
their sleep with the steam of the new tempered lime and
coal. This was at Langathen in Carmarthenshire. — Jo.
Davis. See more. —

Generglyn, March 1656.

To this account of Mr. Davis, I will subjoin what my
worthy friend and neighbour Randal Caldicot, D.D. hath
affirmed to me many years since, viz. When any Chris-
tian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over
the water where the corps is, a light, by which means they
do find the body : and it is therefore called the Holy Dee.
The doctor's father was Mr. Caldicot, of Caldicot in Che-
shire, which lies on the river.

OEACLES.

Cardanus, lib. 3, Synesiorum
Somniorum, cap. 15, treats of this subject,
which see. Johannes Scotus Erigena, when

33% he was in Greece, did go to an Oracle to

enquire for a Treatise of Aristotle, and found it, by the
response of the oracle. This he mentions in his works
lately printed at Oxford ; and is quoted by Mr. Anthony
a Wood in his Antiquites of Oxon, in his life. He lived
before the conquest, and taught Greek at the Abby in
Malmesbury, where his scholars stabbed him with their
penknives for his severity to them. Leland mentions that
his statue was in the choir there.

ECSTACY.

Cardanus, lib, 2. Synes. Somniorum, cap. 8.

N Ecstasin mullis modis dilabuntur homines,
aut per Syncopen, aut animi deliquium, aut
etiam proprie abducto omni sensu eoctemo,
absque alia Causa. Id vero contingit con-
suetis plerunque, fy nimio affectu alicujus rei laborantibus >

Ecstasis medium est inter vigiliam fy somnium, sicut

somnus inter mortem fy vigiliam seuvitam Visa in

Ecstasi certiora insomniis : Clariora fy evidentiora

Ecstasi deprehensi audire possunt, qui dormiunt non pos-
sunt.

Men fall into an Ecstacy many ways, either by a syn-
cope, by a vanishing and absence of the spirits, or else by
the withdrawing of every external sense without any other
cause. It most commonly happens to those who are over
sollicitous or fix their whole minds upon doing any one
particular thing. An Ecstacy is a kind of medium between
sleeping and waking, as sleep is a kind of middle state
between life and death. Things seen in an Ecstacy are
more certain than those we behold in dreams: they are

170 m EC STACY.

much more clear, and far more evident. Those seized
with an Ecstacy can hear, those who sleep cannot.

Anno 1670, a poor widow's daughter in Herefordshire,
went to service not far from Harwood (the seat of Sir John
Hoskins, Bart. R.S.S.) She was aged near ahout twenty ;
fell very ill, even to the point of death ; her mother was
old and feeble, and her daughter was the comfort of her
life ; if she should die, she knew not what to do : she be-
sought God upon her knees in prayer, that he would be
pleased to spare her daughter's life, and take her to him :
at this very time, the daughter fell into a trance, which
continued about an hour : they thought she had been dead :
when she recovered out of it, she declared the vision she
had in this fit, viz. that one in black habit came to her,
whose face was so bright and glorious she could not behold
it ; and also he had such brightness upon his breast, and
(if I forget not) upon his arms. And told her, that her
mother's prayers were heard, and that her mother should
shortly die, and she should suddenly recover ; and she did
so, and her mother died. She hath the character of a
modest, humble, virtuous maid. Had this been in some
Catholick country, it would have made a great noise.

'Tis certain, there was one in the Strand, who lay in a
trance a few hours before he departed. And in his trance
had a vision of the death of King Charles II. It was at
the very day of his apoplectick fit.

There is a sheet of paper printed 16 ... concerning
Ecstasies, that James Usher, late Lord Primate of Ireland,

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once had : but I have been assured from my hon. friend
James Tyrrell, Esq. (his Lordship's grandson) that this
was not an ecstacy ; but that his Lordship upon reading
the 12, 13, 14, <fcc. chapters of the Revelation, and farther
reflecting upon the great increase of the sectaries in Eng-
land, supposed that they would let in popery, which con-
sideration put him into a great transport, at the time when
his daughter (the Lady Tyrrel) came into the room ; when
he discoursed to her divers things (tho' not all) contained
in the said printed paper.

GLANCES OF LOVE AND MALICE.

M OR ex Oculo : Love is from the eye : but
(as the Lord Bacon saith) more by glances,
than by full gazings ; and so for envy and
malice.

Tell me dearest, what is Love ?
'Tis a Lightning from above :
'Tis an Arrow, 'tis a Fire,
'Tis a Boy they call Desire.*

'Tis something divine and inexplicable. It is strange,
that as one walks the streets sometimes one shall meet
with an aspect (of male or female) that pleases our souls ;
and whose natural sweetness of nature, we could boldly
rely upon. One never saw the other before, and so could
neither oblige or disoblige each other. Gaze not on a
maid, saith Ecclus. 9, 5.

The Glances of envy and malice do shoot also subtilly ;
the eye of the malicious person, does really infect and
make sick the spirit of the other. The Lord Bacon saith,

* Mr. Fletcher in Cupid's Revenge.

GLANCES OF LOVE AND MALICE. 173

it hath been observed, that after triumphs, the triumphants
have been sick in spirit.

The chymist can draw subtile spirits, that will work
upon one another at some distance, viz. spirits of alkalies
and acids, e.g. spirits ccelestial (sal armoniac and spirits
of C, C. will work on each other at half a yard distance,
and smoke ;) but the spirits above mentioned are more
subtile than they.

Non amo te Sdbati, nee possum dicere quare,
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.

Fellow, I love thee not, I can't tell why,
But this, I'll tell thee, I could sooner die.

But if an astrologer had their nativities, he would find
a great disagreement in the schemes. These are hyper-
physical opticks, and drawn from the heavens.

Infants are very sensible of these irradiations of the
eyes. In Spain, France, &c. southern countries, the
nurses and parents are very shy to let people look upon
their young children, for fear of fascination. In Spain
they take it ill if one looks on a child, and make one say,
God bless it. They talk of mal de ojos. We usually say,
witches have evil eyes.

AN

ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF SECOND-
SIGHTED MEN IN SCOTLAND.

In Two Letters from a learned friend of mine
in Scotland.

I.

To Mr. JOHN AUBREY, Fellow of the Royal- Society.
SIR,

i OK your satisfaction I drew up some queries
about the second-sighted men, and having
sent them to the northern parts of this king-
dom, some while ago, I received answers to
them from two different hands, whereof I am now to give
you an account, viz.

Query 1.

If some few credible, well attested instances of such a
knowledge as is commonly called the second-sight, can be
given ?

Answer.

Many instances of such knowledge can be given, by the
confession of such who are skilled in that faculty : for in-
stances I refer you to the fourth query.

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Query 2.

If it consists in the discovery of present or past events
only ? or if it extend to such as are to come ?

Answer.

The second-sight relates only to things future, which
will shortly come to pass. Past events I learn nothing of it.

Query 3.

If the objects of this knowledge, be sad and dismal
events only ; such as deaths and murders ? or, joyful and
prosperous also ?

Answer.

Sad and dismal events, are the objects of this know-
ledge : as sudden deaths, dismal accidents. That they
are prosperous, or joyful, I cannot learn. Only one in-
stance I have from a person worthy of credit, and thereby
judge of the joyfulness, or prosperity of it, and it is this.
Near forty years ago, Maclean and his Lady, sister to my
Lord Seaforth, were walking about their own house, and
in their return both came into the nurse's chamber, where
their young child was on the breast : at their coming into
the room, the nurse falls a weeping ; they asked the cause,
dreading the child was sick, or that she was scarce of
milk : the nurse replied, the child was well, and she had
abundance of milk ; yet she still wept ; and being pressed
to tell what ailed her ; she at last said Maclean would die,
and the Lady would shortly be married to another man.
Being enquired how she knew that event, she told them
plainly, that as they came both into the room, she saw a

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man with a scarlet cloak and a white hat betwixt them,
giving the Lady a kiss over the shoulder; and this was
the cause of weeping. All which came to pass after Mac-
lean's death ; the tutor of Lovet married the Lady in the
same habit the woman saw him. Now by this instance,
judge if it be prosperous to one, it is as dismal to another.

Query 4.

If these events which second- sighted men discover, or
foretel, be visibly represented to them, and acted, as it
were before their eyes ?

Answer.

Affirmatively, they see those things visibly ; but none
sees but themselves ; for instance, if a man's fatal end be
hanging, they will see a gibbet, or a rope about his neck :
if beheaded, they will see the man without a head; if
drowned, they will see water up to his throat ; if unex-
pected death, they will see a winding sheet about his head :
all which are represented to their view. One instance I
had from a gentleman here, of a Highland gentleman of
the Macdonalds, who having a brother that came to visit
him, saw him coming in, wanting a head ; yet told not
his brother he saw any such thing ; but within twenty-four
hours thereafter, his brother was taken, (being a murderer)
and his head cut off, and sent to Edinburgh. Many such
instances might be given.

Query 5.

If the second-sight be a thing that is troublesome and
uneasy to those that have it, and such as they would gladly
be rid of?

OF SECOND-SIGHTED MEN. 177

Answer.

It is commonly talked by all I spoke with, that it ia
troublesome ; and they would gladly be freed from it, but
cannot : only I heard lately of a man very much troubled
in his soul therewith, and by serious begging of God
deliverance from it, at length lost the faculty of the second-
sight.

Query 6.

If any person, or persons, truly godly, who may justly
be presumed to be such, have been known to have had
this gift or faculty ?

Answer.
Negatively, not any godly, but such as are virtuous.

Query 7.

If it descends by succession from parents to children ?
or if not, whether those that have it can tell how they
came by it ?

Answer.

That it is by succession, I cannot learn ; how they came
by it, is hard to know, neither will they tell ; which if
they did, they are sure of their strokes from an invisible
hand. One instance I heard of one Allen Miller, being
in company with some gentlemen, having gotten a little
more than ordinary of that strong liquor they were drink-
ing, began to tell stories and strange passages he had been
at : but the said Allen was suddenly removed to the farther

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end of the house, and was there almost strangled ; recover-
ing a little, and coming to the place where he was hefore,
they asked him, what it was that troubled him so ? He an-
swered he durst not tell ; for he had told too much already.

Query 8.
How came they by it ?

Answer*

Some say by compact with the Devil ; some say by con-
verse with those daemons we call fairies. I have heard,
that those that have this faculty of the second-sight, have
offered to teach it to such as were curious to know it ; upon
such and such conditions they would teach them ; but
their proffers were rejected.

This is all I could learn by tradition of that faculty,
from knowing and intelligent men. If this satisfy not
these queries aforesaid, acquaint me, and what can be
known of it shall be transmitted.

I cannot pass by an instance I have from a very honest
man in the next parish, who told me it himself. That
his wife being big with child near her delivery, he buys
half a dozen of boards to make her a bed against the time
she lay in. The boards lying at the door of his house,
there comes an old fisher- woman, yet alive, and asked him,
whose were those boards ? He told her they were his own ;
she asked again, for what use he had them ? He replied
for a bed ; she again said, I intend them for what use you

OF SECOND-SIGHTED MEN. 179

please, she saw a dead corps lying upon them, and that
they would be a coffin : which struck the honest man to
the heart, fearing the death of his wife. But when the
old woman went off, he calls presently for a carpenter to
make the bed, which was accordingly done ; but shortly
after the honest man had a child died, whose coffin was
made of the ends of those boards.

Sir, the original, whereof this that I have writ, is a true
copy, was sent by a minister, living within some few miles
of Inverness, to a friend of mine whom I employed to get
information for me ; as I insinuated before : I have other
answers to these queries from another hand, which I pur-
posed to have communicated to you at this time ; but I
find there will not be room enough for them in this sheet ;
howbeit, in case you think it fit, they shall be sent you
afterward.

In the mean time, I shall tell you what I have had from
one of the masters of our college here (a north country
man both by birth and education, in his younger years)
who made a journey in the harvest time into the shire of
Eoss, and at my desire, made some enquiry there, con-
cerning the second-sight. He reports, that there they
told him many instances of this knowledge, which he had
forgotten, except two. The first, one of his sisters, a
young gentlewoman, staying with a friend, at some thirty
miles distance from her father's house, and the ordinary
place of her residence ; one who had the second-sight in
the family where she was, saw a young man attending her

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as she went up and down the house, and this was ahout
three months hefore her marriage. The second is of a
woman in that country who is reputed to have the second-
sight, and declared, that eight days hefore the death of a
gentleman there, she saw a bier or coffin covered with a
cloth which she knew, carried as it were, to the place of
burial, and attended with a great company, one of which
told her it was the corps of such a person, naming that
gentleman, who died eight days after. By these instances
it appears, that the objects of this knowledge are not sad
and dismal events only, but joyful and prosperous ones
also : he declares farther, that he was informed there, if
I mistake not, by some of those who had the second-sight,
that if at any time when they see those strange sights,
they set their foot upon the foot of another who hath not
the second-sight, that other will for that time see what
they are seeing ; as also that they offered, if he pleased,
to communicate the second-sight to him. I have nothing
more to add at present, but that I am,

Sir,

Your faithful friend,

And humble servant.

II.

To Mr. JOHN AUBREY, Fellow of the Royal-Society at
Gresham- College, London.

Honoured Sir,

SINCE my last to you, I have had the favour of two letters
from you : to the first, dated February 6, I had replied

OF SECOND-SIGHTED MEN. 181

sooner, but that I wanted leisure to transcribe some farther
accounts of a second-sighted man, sent me from the north,
whereof (in obedience to your desire) I give here the
doubles.

May the 4th.
1694.

A Copy of an Answer to some Queries concerning Second-
sighted Men, sent by a Minister living near Inverness, to
a Friend of mine.

Query 1.

THAT there is such an art, commonly called the second-
sight, is certain, from these following instances.

First, in a gentleman's house, one night the mistress
considering why such persons whom she expected were so
late, and so long a coming, the supper being all the while
delayed for them ; a servant man about the house (finding
the mistress anxious) having the second-sight, desires to
cover the table, and before all things were put on, those
persons she longed for would come in; which happened
accordingly.

The second instance, concerning a young Lady of great
birth, whom a rich Knight fancied and came in sute of the
Lady, but she could not endure to fancy him, being a harsh
and unpleasant man: but her friends importuning her
daily, she turned melancholy and lean, fasting and weeping

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continually. A common fellow about the house meeting
her one day in the fields, asked her, saying, Mrs. Kate,
What is that that troubles you, and makes you look so ill ;
she replied, that the cause is known to many, for my
friends would have me marry such a man by name, but I
cannot fancy him. Nay, (says the fellow) give over these
niceties, for he will be your first husband, and will not live
long, and be sure he will leave you a rich dowry, which
will procure you a great match, for I see a Lord upon each
shoulder of you : all which came to pass in every circum-
stance ; as eye and ear witnesses declare.

A third instance, of a traveller coming in to a certain
house, desired some meat: the mistress being something
nice and backward to give him victuals ; you need not,
says he, churle me in a piece of meat ; for before an hour
and half be over, a young man of such a stature and garb
will come in with a great salmon-fish on his back, which I
behold yonder on the floor : and it came to pass within the
said time.

A fourth instance, of a young woman in a certain house
about supper-time, refused to take meat from the steward
who was offering in the very time meat to her ; being asked
why she would not take it ? replied, she saw him full of
blood, and therefore was afraid to take any thing of his
hands. The next morning, the said steward offering to
compose a difference between two men, at an ale-house
door, got a stroak of a sword on the forehead, and came
home full of blood. This was told me by an eye witness.

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Query 2.

Those that have this faculty of the second-sight, see
only things to come, which are to happen shortly there-
after, and sometimes foretel things which fall out three or
four years after. For instance, one told his master, that
he saw an arrow in such a man through his hody, and yet
no hlood came out : his master told him, that it was im-
possible an arrow should stick in a man's hody, and no
blood come out, and if that came not to pass, he would be
deemed an impostor. But about five or six years after the
man died, and being brought to his burial-place, there
arose a debate anent his grave, and it came to such a
height, that they drew arms, and bended their bows ; and
one letting off an arrow, shot through the dead body upon
the bier-trees, and so no blood could issue out at a dead
man's wound. Thus his sight could not inform him whe-
ther the arrow should be shot in him alive or dead, neither
could he condescend whether near or afar off.

Query 3.

They foresee murthers, drownings, weddings, burials,
combats, man -slaughters, of all which, many instances
might be given. Lately (I believe in August last, 1695)
one told there would be drowning in the river Bewly,
which come to pass : two pretty men crossing a ford both
drowned, which fell out within a month. Another instance ;
a man that served the Bishop of Catnes, who had five
daughters in his house, one of them grudged, that the
burthen of the family lay on her wholly : the fellow told

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her that ere long she should be exonered of that task,
for he saw a tall gentleman in black, walking on the
Bishop's right-hand, whom she should marry: and this
fell out accordingly, within a quarter of a year thereafter.
He told also of a covered table, full of varieties of good
fare, and their garbs who set about the table.

Query 4.

They see all this visibly acted before their eyes ; some-
times within, and sometimes without-doors, as in a glass.

Query 5.

It is a thing very troublesome to them that have it, and
would gladly be rid of it. For if the object be a thing
that is so terrible, they are seen to sweat and tremble, and
shreek at the apparition. At other times they laugh, and
tell the thing chearfully, just according as the thing is
pleasant or astonishing.

Query 6.

Sure it is, that the persons that have a sense of God and
religion, and may be presumed to be godly, are known to
have this faculty. This evidently appears, in that they are
troubled for having it, judging it a sin, and that it came
from the Devil, and not from God ; earnestly desiring and
wishing to be rid of it, if possible ; and to that effect, have
made application to their minister, to pray to God for
them that they might be exonered from that burden.
They have supplicated the presbytery, who judicially ap-
pointed publick prayers to be made in several churches,

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and a sermon preached to that purpose, in their own parish
church, by their minister ; and they have compeired before
the pulpit, after sermon, making confession openly of that
sin, with deep sense on their knees ; renounced any such
gift or faculty which they had to God's dishonour, and
earnestly desired the minister to pray for them ; and this
their recantation recorded ; and after this, they were never
troubled with such a sight any more.

A Copy of a Letter, written to myself by a Gentleman's
Son in Straths-pey in Scotland, being a Student in
Divinity, concerning the Second-sight,

Sra,

I AM more willing than able to satisfy your desire : as for
instances of such a knowledge, I could furnish many. I
shall only insert some few attested by several of good credit
yet alive.

And, first, Andrew Macpherson, of Clunie in Badenoch,
being in sute of Lord of Gareloch's daughter, as he was
upon a day going to Gareloch, the Lady Gareloch was
going somewhere from her house within kenning to the
road which Clunie was coming ; the Lady preceiving him,
said to her attendants, that yonder was Clunie, going to
see his mistress : one that had this second-sight in her com-
pany replied, and said, if yon be he, unless he marry within
six months, he'll never marry. The Lady asked, how did
he know that ? he said, very well, for I see him, saith he,

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all inclosed in his winding-sheet, except his nostrils and
his mouth, which will also close up within six months ;
which happened even as he foretold ; within the said space
he died, and his brother Duncan Macpherson this present
Clunie succeeded. This and the like may satisfy your
fourth query, he seeing the man even then covered all over
with his dead linens. The event was visibly represented,
and as it were acted (before his eyes) and also the last part
of your second query, viz. that it was as yet to come.
As for the rest of the questions, viz. That they discover
present and past events, is also manifest, thus : I have heard
of a gentleman, whose son had gone abroad, and being
anxious to know how he was, he went to consult one who
had this faculty, who told him, that that same day five
o'clock in the afternoon his son had married a woman in
Trance, with whom he had got so many thousand crowns,
and within two years he should come home to see father
and friends, leaving his wife with child of a daughter, and
a, son of six months age behind him : which accordingly
was true. About the same time two years he came home,
and verified all that was fore -told.

It is likewise ordinary with persons that lose any thing,
to go to some of these men, by whom they are directed ;
how, what persons, and in what place they shall find it.
But all such as profess that skill, are not equally dexterous
in it. For instance, two of them were in Mr. Hector
Mackenzie, minister of Inverness, his father's house ; the
one a gentleman, the other a common fellow ; and dis-
coursing by the fire side, the fellow suddenly begins to

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weep, and cry out, alas ! alas ! such a woman is either
dead, or presently expiring. The gentlewoman lived five
or six miles from the house, and had been some days he-
fore in a fever. The. gentleman heing somewhat better
expert in that faculty, said ; no, saith he, she's not dead ;
nor will she die of this disease. O, saith the fellow, do
you not see her all covered with her winding-sheet ; ay,
saith the gentleman, I see her as well as you ; but do you
not see her linen all wet, which is her sweat ? she being
presently cooling of the fever. This story Mr. Hector
himself will testify. The most remarkable of this sort,
that I hear of now, is one Archibald Mackeanyers, alias
Macdonald, living in Ardinmurch, within ten or twenty
miles, or thereby, of Glencoe, and I was present myself,
where he foretold something which accordingly fell out in
1683 ; this man being in Strathspey, in John Macdonald
of Glencoe his company, told in Balachastell, before the
Lord of Grant, his Lady, and several others, and also in
my father's house ; that Argyle, of whom few or none
knew then where he was, at least there was no word of him
then here ; should within two twelve months thereafter,
come to the West-Highlands, and raise a rebellious faction,
which would be divided among themselves, and disperse,
and he unfortunately be taken and beheaded at Edinburgh,
and his head set upon the Talbooth, where his father's
head was before him ; which proved as true, as he fore-told
it, in 1685, thereafter. Likewise in the beginning of May
next after the late revolution, as my Lord Dundee returned
up Spey-side, after he had followed General Major Mac
Kay in his reer down the length of Edinglassie, at the

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Milatown of Gartinbeg, the Macleans joined him, and after
he had received them, he marched forward, but they re-
mained behind, and fell a plundering : upon which, Glencoe
and some others, among whom was this Archibald, being
in my father's house, and hearing that Mac Leans and
others were pillaging some of his lands, went to restrain
them, and commanded them to march after the army ; after
he had cleared the first town, next my father's house of
them, and was come to the second, there standing on a
hill, this Archibald said, Glencoe, if you take my advice,
then make off with your self with all possible haste, ere an
hour come and go you'll be put to it as hard as ever you
was : some of the company began to droll and say, what
shall become of me ? whether Glencoe believed him, or no,
I cannot tell ; but this I am sure of, that whereas before
he was of intention to return to my father's house and stay
all night, now we took leave, and immediately parted.
And indeed, within an hour thereafter, Mac Kay, and his
•whole forces, appeared at Culnakyle in Abernethie, two
miles below the place where we parted, and hearing that
Cleaverhouse had marched up the water-side a little be-
fore, but that Mac Leans, and several other straglers, had
stayed behind, commanded Major ^Eneas Mac Kay, with
two troops of horse after them ; who finding the said Mac
Leans at Kinchardie, in the parish of Luthel, chased them
up the Morskaith : in which chase Glencoe happened to be,
and was hard put to it, as was foretold. What came of
Archibald himself, I am not sure; I have not seen him
since, nor can I get a true account of him, only I know
he is yet alive, and at that time one of my father's men

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whom the red-coats meeting, compelled to guide them,
within sight of the Mac Leans, found the said Archibald's
horse within a mile of the place where I left him. I am
also informed, this Archibald said to Glencoe, that he would
be murdered in the night time in his own house three
months before it happened.

Touching your third query, the objects of this know-
ledge, are not only sad and dismal ; but also joyful and
prosperous : thus they foretell of happy marriages, good
children, what kind of life men shall live, and in what con-
dition they shall die : and riches, honour, preferment,
peace, plenty and good weather.

Query 7.

What way they pretend to have it ? I am informed, that
in the Isle of Sky, especially before the gospel came
thither, several families had it by succession, descending
from parents to children, and as yet there be many there
that have it that way ; and the only way to be freed from
it is, when a woman hath it herself, and is married to a
man that hath it also ; if in the very act of delivery, upon
the first sight of the child's head, it be baptized, the same
is free from it ; if not, he hath it all his life ; by which, it
seems, it is a thing troublesome and uneasy to them that
have it, and such as they would fain be rid of. And may
satisfy your ninth query. And for your farther content-
ment in this query, I heard of my father, that there
was one John du beg Mac Grigor, a Eeanach man born,
very expert in this knowledge, and my father coming one
day from Inverness, said by the way, that he would go into

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an ale-house on the road, which then would he ahout five
miles off. This John Mac Grigor being in his company,
and taken up a slate stone at his foot, and looking to it,
replied ; nay, said he, you will not go in there, for there is
hut a matter of a gallon of ale in it even now, and ere. we
come to it, it will be all near drunken, and those who are
drinking there, are strangers to us, and ere we be hardly
past the house, they will discord among themselves : which
fell out so ; ere we were two pair of butts past the house,
those that were drinking there went by the ears, wounded
and mischieved one another. My father by this and
several other things of this nature, turned curious of this
faculty, and being very intimate with the man, told him he
would fain learn it : to which he answered, that indeed he
could in three days time teach him if he pleased ; but yet
he would not advise him nor any man to learn it ; for had
he once learned, he would never be a minute of his life
but he would see innumerable men and women night and
day round about him ; which perhaps he would think
wearisome and unpleasant, for which reason my father
would not have it. But as skilful as this man was, yet he
knew not what should be his own last end ; which was
hanging : And I am informed, that most, if not all of them,
though they can fore-see what shall happen to others : yet
they cannot foretell, much less prevent, what shall befal
themselves. I am also informed by one who came last
summer from the isle of Sky, that any person that pleases
will get it taught him for a pound or two of tobacco.

As for your last query. For my own part, I can hardly

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believe they can be justly presumed, much less truly godly.
As for this Mac Grigor several report, that he was a very
civil discreet man, and some say he was of good deportment,
and also unjustly hanged. But Archibald Mackenyere will
not deny himself, but once he was one of the most notori-
ous thieves in all the Highlands : but I am informed since
I came to this knowledge which was by an accident too
long here to relate, that he has turned honester than before.
There was one James Mack Coil-vicalaster alias Grant,
in Glenbeum near Kirk-Michael in Strathawin, who had
this sight, who I hear of several that were well acquainted
with him, was a very honest man, and of right blameles con-
versation. He used ordinarily by looking to the fire, to fore-
tell what strangers would come to his house the next day,
or shortly thereafter, by their habit and arms, and some-
times also by their name ; and if any of his goods or cattle
were missing, he would direct his servants to the very place
where to find them, whether in a mire or upon dry ground ;
he would also tell, if the beast were already dead, or if it
would die ere they could come to it ; and in winter, if they
were thick about the fire-side, he would desire them to
make room for some others that stood by, though they did
not see them, else some of them would be quickly thrown
into the midst of it. But whether this man saw any more
than Brownie and Meg Mullach, I am not very sure;
some say, he saw more continually, and would often be
very angry-like, and something troubled, nothing visibly
moving him : others affirm he saw these two continually,
and sometimes many morei

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They generally term this second-sight in Irish Taishi-
taraughk, and such as have it Taishatrin, from Taish, which
is properly a shadowy substance, or such naughty, and im-
perceptible thing, as can only, or rather scarcely be dis-
cerned by the eye ; but not caught by the hands : for which
they assigned it to Bugles or Ghosts, so that Taishtar, is
as much as one that converses with ghosts or spirits, or as
they commonly call them, the Fairies or Fairy-Folks.
Others call these men Phissicin, from Phis, which is pro-
perly fore-sight, or fore-knowledge. This is the surest
and clearest account of second-sighted men that I can
now find, and I have set it down fully, as if I were tran-
siently telling it, in your own presence, being curious for
nothing but the verity, so far as I could. What you find
improper or superfluous, you can best compendise it, $c.

Thus far this letter, written in a familiar and homely
stile, which I have here set down at length. Meg Mullack,
and Brownie mentioned in the end of it, are two ghosts,
which (as it is constantly reported) of old, haunted a family
in Straths-pey of the name of Grant. They appeared at first
in the likeness of a young lass ; the second of a young lad.

Dr. Moulin (who presents his service to you) hath no
acquaintance in Orkney ; but I have just now spoken with
one, who not only hath acquaintance in that country, but
also entertains some thoughts of going thither himself, to
get me an account of the cures usually practised there.
The Cortex Winteranus, mentioned by you as an excellent
medicine, I have heard it commended as good for the

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scurvy ; if you know it to be eminent or specific (such as
the Peruvian Bark is) for any disease, I shall be well
pleased to be informed by you.

Thus, Sir, you have an account of all my informations
concerning second-sighted men : I have also briefly touched
all the other particulars in both your letters, which needed
a reply, except your thanks so liberally and obligingly re-
turned to me for my letters, and the kind sense you ex-
press of that small service. The kind reception which you
have given to those poor trifles, and the value which you
put on them, I consider as effects of your kindness to
myself, and as engagements on me to serve you to better
purpose when it shall be in the power of

Your faithful friend,

and servant, <fec.

ADDITAMENTS OF SECOND-SIGHT.

IIEMEKBROECK in his book de Peste, (i.e.

of the Plague) gives us a story of Dimmerus
de Eaet, that being at Delft, where the pes-
tilence then raged, sent then his wife thirty
miles off. And when the doctor went to see the gentleman
of the house, as soon as he came in, the old chair-woman
that washed the cloathes fell a weeping : he asked her why ?
said she, my mistress is now dead ; I saw her apparition
but just now without a head, and that it was usual with her
when a friend of hers died, to see their apparitions in that
manner, though never so far off. His wife died at that
time.

Mr. Thomas May in his History, lib. 8, writes, that an
old man (like an hermit) second-sighted, took his leave of
King James I. when he came into England : he took little
notice of Prince Henry, but addressing himself to the
Duke of York (since King Charles I.) fell a weeping to
think what misfortunes he should undergo; and that he
should be one of the iniserablest unhappy Princes that ever
was.

A Scotch nobleman sent for one of these second-sighted

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men out of the Highlands, to give his judgment of the then
great favourite, George Villers, Duke of Buckingham ; as
soon as ever he saw him, " Pish," said he, *' he will come
to nothing. I see a dagger in his breast ; " and he was
stabbed in the breast by Captain Felton.

Sir James Melvil hath several the like stories in his
Memoirs. Folio.

A certain old man in South-Wales, told a great man
there of the fortune of his family ; and that there should
not be a third male generation.

In Spain there are those they call Saludadores, that
have this kind of gift. There was a Portugueze Domi-
nican fryar belonging to Queen Katherine Dowager's
chapel, who had the second-sight.

FARTHER ADDITAMENTS

Concerning Predictions, Fatality, Apparitions, fyc. From
the various History of ^ELIAN. Rendered out of the
Greek Original. By Mr. T. STANLEY.

E wisdom of the Persian Magi was ("besides
other things proper to them) conversant in
prediction: they foretold the cruelty of
Ochus towards his subjects, and his bloody
disposition, which they collected from some secret signs.
For when Ochus, upon the death of his father Artaxerxes,
came to the crown, the Magi charged one of the Eunuchs
that were next him, to observe upon what things, when the
table was set before him, he first laid hands ; who watching
intentively, Ochus reached forth both his hands, and with
his right, laid hold of a knife that lay by, with the other,
took a great loaf, which he laid upon the meat, and did cut
and eat greedily. The Magi, hearing this, foretold that
there would be plenty during his reign, and much blood
shed. In which they erred not.

It is observed, that on the sixth day of the month Thar-
gelion, many good fortunes have befallen not only the
Athenians, but divers others. Socrates was born on this

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day, the Persians vanquished on this day, and the Athe-
nians sacrifice three hundred goats to Agrotera upon this
day in pursuit of Miltiades's Vow : on the same day of this
month was the fight of Plataea, in which the Grecians had
the better ; for the former fight which I mentioned was at
Artemisium, neither was the victory which the Greeks ob-
tained at Mycale on any other day ; seeing that the victory
at Platsea and Mycale happened on the self-same day.
Likewise Alexander the Macedonian, son of Philip, van-
quished many myriads of the Barbarians on the sixth day,
when he took Darius prisoner. All which is observed to
have happened on this month. It is likewise reported that
Alexander was born and died on the same day.

Some Pythian relations affirm, that Hercules, son of
Jupiter and Alcmena, was at his birth, named Heraclides ;
but that afterwards coming to Delphi to consult the oracle
about some business, he obtained that for which he came,
and received farther privately from the God, this oracle
concerning himself.

Thee Hercules doth Phoebus name,
For thou shalt gain immortal fame.

The Peripateticks assert, that the soul in the day-time
is inslaved and involved in the body, so that she cannot
behold truth ; but in the night, being freed from this ser-
vitude, and gathered together, as it were, in a round about
the parts that are in the breast, she is more prophetick,
whence proceed dreams.

Socrates said of his daemon to Theages Demodocus, and

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many others, that he many times perceived a yoice warn-
ing him by divine instinct, which, saith he, when it comes,
signifieth a dissuasion from that which I am going to do,
but never persuades to do any thing. And when any of
my friends, (saith he) impart their business to me, if this
voice happens, it dissuades also, giving me the like coun-
sel : whereupon, I dehort him who adviseth with me, and
suffer him not to proceed in what he is about, following the
divine admonition. He alledged as witness hereof Char-
mides son of Glauco, who asking his advice, whether he
should exercise at the Nemean games ; as soon as he be-
gan to speak, the voice gave the accustomed sigh. Where-
upon Socrates endeavoured to divert Charmides from this
purpose, telling him the reason. But he not following
the advice, it succeeded ill with him.

Aspacia a Phocian, daughter of Hermotimus, was
brought up an orphan, her mother dying in the pains of
child-birth. She was bred up in poverty, but modestly
and virtuously. She had many times a dream which
foretold her that she should be married to an excellent
person. Whilst she was yet young, she chanced to have
a swelling under her chin, loathsome to sight, whereat
both the father and the maid were much afflicted. Her
father brought her to a physician : he offered to undertake
the cure for three staters ; the other said he had not the
money. The physician replied, he had then no physic for
him. Hereupon Aspasia departed weeping ! and holding
a looking-glass on her knee, beheld her face in it, which
much increased her grief. Going to rest without supping,

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by the reason of the trouble she was in, she had an oppor-
tune dream ; a dove seemed to appear to her as she slept,
which being changed to a woman, said, " Be of good
" courage, and bid a long farewel to physicians and their
" medicines : take of the dried rose of Venus garlands,
" which being pounded apply to the swelling." After the
maid had understood and made trial of this, the tumour
was wholly assuaged ; and Aspasia recovering her beauty
by means of the most beautiful goddess, did once again
appear the fairest amongst her virgin-companions, en-
riched with graces far above any of the rest. Of hair
yellow, locks a little curling, she had great eyes, some-
what hawk-nosed, ears short, skin delicate, complexion
like roses ; whence the Phocians, whilst she was yet a
child, called her Milto. Her lips were red, teeth whiter
then snow, small insteps, such as of those women whom
Homer calls X^r^upsc- Her voice sweet and smooth,
that whosoever heard her might justly say he heard the
voice of a Syren. She was averse from womanish curiosity
in dressing: such things are to be supplied by wealth.
She being poor, and bred up under a poor father, used no-
thing superfluous or extravagant to advantage her beauty.
On a time Aspasia came to Cyrus, son of Darius and
Parysatis, brother of Artaxerxes, not willingly nor with
the consent of her father, but by compulsion, as it often
happens upon the taking of cities, or the violence of tyrants
and their officers. One of the officers of Cyrus, brought
her with other virgins to Cyrus, who immediately preferred
her before all his concubines, for simplicity of behaviour,
and modesty ; whereto also contributed her beauty with-

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out artifice, and her extraordinary discretion, which was
such, that Cyrus many times asked her advice in affairs,
which he never repented to have followed. When Aspasia
came first to Cyrus, it happened that he was newly risen
from supper, and was going to drink after the Persian
manner : for after they have done eating, they betake
themselves to wine, and fall to their cups freely, encounter-
ing drink as an adversary. Whilst they were in the midst
of their drinking, four Grecian virgins were brought to
Cyrus, amongst whom was Aspasia the Phocian. They
were finely attired ; three of them had their heads neatly
drest by their own women which came along with them,
and had painted their faces. They had been also instruct-
ed by their governesses how to behave themselves towards
Cyrus, to gain his favour ; not to turn away when he came
to them, not to be coy when he touched them, to permit
him to kiss them, and many other amatory instructions
practised by women who exposed their beauty to sale.
Each contended to out-vie the other in handsomeness.
Only Aspasia would not endure to be clothed with a rich
robe, nor to put on a various coloured vest, nor to be
washed ; but calling upon the Grecian and Eleutherian
gods, she cried out upon her father's name, execrating her-
self to her father. She thought the robe which she should
put on was a manifest sign of bondage. At last being
compelled with blows she put it on, and was necessitated to
behave herself with greater liberty than beseemed a virgin.
When they came to Cyrus, the rest smiled, and expressed
chearfulness in their looks. But Aspasia looking on the
ground, her eyes full of tears, did every way express an

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extraordinary bashfulness. When he commanded them to
sit down by him, the rest instantly obeyed ; but the Pho-
cian refused, until the officer caused her to sit down by
force. When Cyrus looked upon or touched their eyes,
cheeks and fingers, the rest freely permitted him ; but she
would not suifer it : for if Cyrus did but offer to touch her,
she cried out, saying, he should not go unpunished for
such actions. Cyrus was herewith extreamly pleased ; and
when upon his offering to touch her breast, she rose up,
and would have run away, Cyrus much taken with her
native ingenuity which was not like the Persians, turning
to him that bought them, " This maid only saith he, of
" those which you have brought me is free and pure ; the
" rest are adulterate in face, but much more in behaviour."
Hereupon Cyrus loved her above all the women he ever
had. Afterwards there grew a mutual love between them,
and their friendship proceeded to such a height that it
almost arrived at parity, not differing from the concord
and modesty of Grecian marriage. Hereupon the fame
of his affection to Aspasia was spread to Ionia and through-
out Greece ; Peloponnesus also was filled with discourses
of the love betwixt Cyrus and her. The report went even
to the great King [of Persia,] for it was conceived that
Cyrus, after his acquaintance with her, kept company with
no other woman. From these things Aspasia recollected
the remembrance of her old apparition, and of the dove,
and her words, and what the goddess foretold her. Hence
she conceived that she was from the very beginning parti-
cularly regarded by her. She therefore offered sacrifice of
thanks to Venus. And first caused a great image of gold

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to be erected to her, which she called the image of Venus,
and by it placed the picture of a dove beset with jewels,
and every day implored the favour of the goddess with
sacrifice and prayer. She sent to Hermotimus her father
many rich presents, and made him wealthy. She lived
continently all her life, as both the Grecian and Persian
women affirm. On a time a neck-lace was sent as a pre-
sent to Cyrus from Scopas the younger, which had been
sent to Scopas out of Sicily. The neck-lace was of extra-
ordinary workmanship, and variety. All therefore to whom
Cyrus shewed it admiring it, he was much taken with the
jewel, and went immediately to Aspasia, it being about
noon, finding her asleep, he lay down gently by her, watch-
ing quietly while she slept. As soon as she awaked, and
saw Cyrus, she embraced him after her usual manner. He
taking the neck-lace out of a box, said, " this is worthy
"' either the daughter or the mother of a King." To which
she assenting ; " I will give it you, said he, for your own
" use, let me see your neck adorned with it." But she
received not the gift, prudently and discreetly answering,
" How will Parysatis your mother take it, this being a gift
" fit for her that bare you ? send it to her, Cyrus, I will
" shew you a neck handsome enough without it." As-
pasia from the greatness of her mind acted contrary to
other royal Queens, who are excessively desirous of rich
ornaments. Cyrus being pleased with this answer, kissed
Aspasia. All these actions and speeches Cyrus writ in a
letter which he sent together with the chain to his mother ;
and Parysatis receiving the present was no less delighted
with the news than with the gold, for which she requited

PREDICTIONS, ETC: 203

Aspasia with great and royal gifts ; for this pleased her
above all things, that though Aspasia were chiefly affected
by her son, yet in the love of Cyrus she desired to be
placed beneath his mother. Aspasia praised the gifts, but
said she had no need of them ; (for there was much money
sent with the presents) but sent them to Cyrus, saying,
" To you who maintain many men this may be useful : for
" me it is enough that you love me and are my ornament."
With these things, as it seemeth she much astonished
Cyrus. And indeed the woman was without dispute ad-
mirable for her personal beauty, but much more for the
nobleness of her mind. When Cyrus was slain in the
fight against his brother, and his army taken prisoners,
with the rest of the prey she was taken not falling acci-
dentally into the enemies hands, but sought for with much
diligence by King Artaxerxes, for he had heard her fame
and virtue. When they brought her bound, he was
angry, and cast those that did it into prison. He com-
manded that a rich robe should be given her : which she
hearing, intreated with tears and lamentation that she
might not put on the garment the King appointed, for
she mourned exceedingly for Cyrus. But when she had
put it on, she appeared the fairest of ah1 women, and Ar-
taxerxes was immediately surprised and inflamed with
love of her. He valued her beyond all the rest of his
women, respecting her infinitely. He endeavoured to in-
gratiate himself into her favour, hoping to make her for-
get Cyrus, and to love him no less than she had done his
brother ; but it was long before he could compass it. For
the affection of Aspasia to Cyrus had taken so deep im-

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pression, that it could not easily be rooted out. Long
after this, Teridates, the Eunuch died, who was the most
beautiful youth in Asia. He had full surpassed childhood,
and was reckoned among the youths. The King was said
to have loved him exceedingly : he was infinitely grieved
and troubled at his death, and there was an universal
mourning throughout Asia, every one endeavouring to
gratify the King herein ; and none durst venture to come
to him and comfort him, for they thought his passion
would not admit any consolation. Three days being past,
Aspasia taking a mourning robe as the King was going to
the bath, stood weeping, her eyes cast on the ground.
He seeing her, wondered, and demanded the reason of
her coming. She said, " I come, O King, to comfort your
" grief and affliction, if you so please ; otherwise I shall
" go back." The Persian pleased with this care, com-
manded that she should retire to her chamber, and wait
his coming. As soon as he returned, he put the vest of
the Eunuch upon Aspasia, which did in a manner fit her :
and by this means her beauty appeared with greater splen-
dour to the King's eye, who much affected the youth.
And being once pleased herewith, he desired her to come
always to him in that dress, until the height of his grief
were allayed : which to please him she did. Thus more
than all his other women, or his own son and kindred, she
comforted Artaxerxes, and relieved his sorrow ; the King
being pleased with her care, and prudently admitting her
consolation.

PREDICTIONS, ETC. 205

GEORGE BUCHANAN, in Us History of SCOTLAND, reciteth
of one of their Kings, James IV. the following very
remarkable Passages.

THE presence of this King being required to be with his
army, whither he was going, at Linlithgo, whilst he was
at Vespers in the church, there entered an old man, the
hair of his head being red, inclining to yellow, hanging
down on his shoulders ; his forehead sleek through bald-
ness, bare-headed, in a long coat of a russet colour, girt with
a linen girdle about his loins ; in the rest of his aspect, he
was very venerable : he pressed through the crowd to
come to the King : when he came to him, he leaned upon
the chair on which the King sat, with a kind of rustic
simplicity, and bespoke him thus ; " O King," said he,
" I am sent to warn thee, not to proceed in thy intended
" design ; and if thou neglectest this admonition, neither
" thou nor thy followers shall prosper. I am also com-
" manded to tell thee, that thou shouldest not use the
" familiarity, intimacy, and council of women ; which if
" thou dost, it will redound to thy ignominy and loss."
Having thus spoken, he withdrew himself into the croud ;
and when the King inquired for him, after prayers were
ended, he could not be found ; which matter seemed more
strange, because none of those who stood next, and observ-
ed him, as being desirous to put many questions to him,
were sensible how he disappeared; amongst them there
was David Lindsey of Mont, a man of approved worth and

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honesty, (and a great scholar too) for in the whole course
of his life, he abhorred lying ; and if I had not received
this story from him as a certain truth, I had omitted it as
a romance of the vulgar.

On Tuesday, July 26, 1720, at a sale of the copies
belonging to Mr. Awnsham Churchill, of London, Book-
seller, which were sold at the Queen's Head tavern, in
Pater Noster Row, there was among them a printed copy
of these Miscellanies, corrected for the press by Mr. Aubrey,
wherein were many very considerable alterations, correc-
tions, and additions, together with the following letter to
Mr. Churchill, written upon the first blank leaf, concerning
the then intended second edition.

MB. CHURCHILL,

THERE is a very pretty remark in the Athenian Mercury,
concerning Apparitions, which I would have inserted under
this head, it is in vol. 17, numb. 25. Tuesday, June 1695.

Mr. Dunton, at the Eaven in Jewin-Street, will help
you to this Mercury, but yesterday he would not, his wife
being newly departed.

J. A.
June 1, 1697.

PREDICTIONS, ETC. 207

The Passage referred to ly Mr. AUBREY, in his Letter
to Mr. CHURCHILL.*

Two persons (Ladies) of quality, (both not being long since
deceased,) were intimate acquaintance, and loved each
other entirely : it so fell out, that one of them fell sick of
the small-pox, and desired mightily to see the other, who
would not come, fearing the catching of them. The
afflicted at last dies of them, and had not been buried very
long, but appears at the other's house, in the dress of a
widow, and asks for her friend, who was then at cards, but
sends down her woman to know her business, who, in
short, told her, " she must impart it to none but her
" Lady," who, after she had received this answer, bid her
woman have her into a room, and desired her to stay while
the game was done, and she would wait on her. The
game being done, down stairs she came to the apparition,
to know her business ; " madam," says the ghost, (turning
up her veil, and her face appearing full of the small-pox)
" You know very well, that you and I, loved entirely ;
" and your not coming to see me, I took it so ill at your
" hands, that I could not rest till I had seen you, and
" now I am come to tell you, that you have not long to
" live, therefore prepare to die ; and when you are at a
" feast, and make the thirteenth person in number, then
" remember my words ;" and so the apparition vanished.

* The passage referred to in this letter is now here inserted :
the other additions are incorporated in the text. Ed.

208 PREDICTIONS, ETC.

To conclude, she was at a feast, where she made the thir-
teenth person in number, and was afterwards asked by the
deceased's brother, " whether her sister did appear to her
" as was reported ?" she made him no answer, but fell a
weeping, and died in a little time after. The gentleman
that told this story, says, that there is hardly any person
of quality but what knows it to be true. (From the Athe-
nian Mercury.)

APPENDIX.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SUEVEY AND

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE NORTH DIVISION
OF THE COUNTY OF WILTSHIRE.

BY J. AUBREY, ESQ.

Printed in " Miscellanies on several curious subjects"
Lord., E. Curll, 1714.

, T a meeting of gentlemen at the Devizes, for
choosing of Knights of the Shire in March
1659, it was wished by some, that this
County (wherein are many observable anti-
quities) was surveyed, in imitation of Mr. Dugdale's illus-
tration of Warwickshire ; but it being too great a task
for one man, Mr. William Yorke (Councellor at Law, and
a lover of this kind of learning) advised to have the labour
divided : he himself would undertake the Middle Division ;
I would undertake the North ; T. Gore, Esq., Jeffrey
Daniel, Esq., and Sir John Erneley would be assistants.
Judge Nicholas was the greatest antiquary, as to evidences,
that this County hath had in memory of man, and had
taken notes in his Adversariis of all the ancient deeds

210 APPENDIX.

that came to his hands. Mr. York had taken some me-
morandums in this kind too, both now dead ; 'tis pity
those papers, falling into the hands of merciless women,
should he put under pies. I have since that occasionally
made this following Collection, which perhaps may some-
time or other fall into some antiquary's hands, to make a
handsome Work of it. I hope my worthy friend Mr.
Anthony Wood of Oxford will he the man. I am heartily
sorry I did not set down the antiquities of these parts
sooner, for since the time aforesaid, many things are irre-
coverably lost.

In former days the churches and great houses hereabouts
did so abound with monuments and things remarkable, that
it would have deterred an antiquary from undertaking it.
But as Pythagoras did guess at the vastness of Hercules'
stature by the length of his foot, so among these ruins are
remains enough left for a man to give a guess what noble
buildings, &c. were made by the piety, charity, and mag-
nanimity of our forefathers.

And as in prospects, we are there pleased most where
something keeps the eye from being lost, and leaves us
room to guess ; so here the eye and mind is no less affected
with these stately ruins, than they would have been when
standing and entire. They breed in generous minds a
kind of pity, and sets the thoughts a-work to make out
their magnifice as they were taken in perfection. These
remains are tanquam Tdbulata Naufragii, that after the
revolution of so many years and governments, have escaped
the teeth of Time, and (which is more dangerous) the
hands of mistaken Zeal, So that the retrieving of these

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forgotten things from oblivion, in some sort resembles that
of a conjurer, who make those walk and appear that have
lain in their graves many hundreds of years, and to repre-
sent, as it were to the eye, the places, customs, and fashions
that were of old time.

Let us imagine then what kind of country this was in
the time of the ancient Britains, by the nature of the soil,
which is a soure, woodsere land, very natural for the pro-
duction of oaks especially; one may conclude, that this
North-Division was a shady, dismal wood ; and the inha-
bitants almost as salvage as the beasts, whose skins were
their only raiment. The language, British, (which for the
honour of it, was in those days spoken from the Orcades
to Italy and Spain). The boats on the Avon (which sig-
nifies river) were baskets of twigs covered with an ox-skin,
which the poor people in Wales use to this day, and call
them curricles.

Within this shire I believe that there were several Re-
guli, which often made war upon one another, and the
great ditches which run on the plains and elsewhere so
many miles, were (not unlikely) their boundaries, and
withall served for defence against the incursion of their
enemies, as the Picts' Wall, Offa's Ditch, and that in
China ; to compare small things to great. Their religion
is at large described by Caesar; their priests were the
Druids. Some of their temples I pretend to have restored ;
as Aubury, Stonehenge, &c. as also British sepulchres.
Their way of fighting is livelily set down by Caesar. Their
camps, with those of their antagonists, I have set down in
another place. They knew the use of iron; and about

212 APPENDIX.

Hedington fields, Bromham, Bowdon, &c. are still ploughed
up cinders (i. e. the scoria of melted iron). They were
two or three degrees I suppose less salvage than the Ame-
ricans. Till King John's time wolves were in this island ;
and in our grandfathers' days more foxes than now, and
marterns (a beast of brown rich furr) at Stanton Park, &c.
the race now extinct thereabout.

The Eomans subdued and civilized them ; at Lekham
(Mr. Camden saith) was a colony of them, as appears
there by the Eoman coin found there. About 1654, in
Weekfield, in the parish of Hedington, digging up the
ground deeper than the plough went, they found, for a
great way together, foundations of houses, hearths, coals,
and a great deal of Roman coin, silver and brass, whereof
I had a pint ; some little copper-pieces, no bigger than
silver half-pence (quaare if they were not the Eoman De-
narii) I have portrayed the pot in which a good deal was
found, which pot I presented to the Eoyal Society's Ee-
pository, it resembles an apprentice's earthen Christmas-
box.

At Sherston, hath several times been found Eoman
money in ploughing. I have one silver piece found there
(1653) not long since, of Constantine the Great. Among
other arts, that of architecture was introduced by them ;
and no doubt but here, as well as in other parts, were then
good buildings, here being so good stone: I know not
any vestigia now left in this country, except the fragments
of the Castle of Sarisbury, which takes its name from
CaBsar, Ca3sarisburghum, from whence Sarisburgh, whence
Salisbury.

APPENDIX. 213

At Bath are several Eoman inscriptions, which Mr.
Camden hath set down, and by the West Gate a piece of
a delicate Corinthian freeze, which he calls wreathed leaves,
not understanding architecture ; and by in a bass relieve
of an optriouch ? At Bethford, about 1663, was found a
grotto paved with Mosaic work, some whereof I have pre-
served.

The Saxons succeeding them, and driving away to Ire-
land, Cornwal, <fec. these Britains were by Komans left
here ; for they used the best of them in their wars, (being
their best soldiers) here was a mist of ignorance for 600
years. They were so far from knowing arts, that they
could not build a wall with stone. They lived sluttishly
in poor houses, where they eat a great deal of beef and
mutton, and drank good ale in a brown mazard ; and their
very kings were but a sort of farmers. After the Christian
Religion was planted here, it gave a great shoot, and the
kings and great men gave vast revenues to the Church,
who were ignorant enough in those days. The Normans
then came and taught them civility and building ; which
though it was Gothick (as also their policy Feudalis Lex)
yet they were magnificent. For the Government, till the
time of King Henry VIII. it was like a nest of boxes ; for
copyholders, (who, till then were villains) held of the lords
of the Manor, who held of a superior lord, who perhaps
held of another superior lord or duke, who held of the
king. Upon any occasion of justing or tournaments in
those days, one of these great lords sounded his trumpets
(the lords then kept trumpeters, even to King James) and
summoned those that held under them. Those again

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sounded their trumpets, and so downward to the copy-
holders. The Court of Wards was a great hridle in those
days. A great part of this North Division held of the
honour of Trowbridge, where is a ruinated castle of the
dukes of Lancaster. No younger brothers then were by
the custom and constitution of the realm to betake them-
selves to trades, but were churchmen or retainers, and
servants to great men rid good horses (now and then took
a purse) and their blood that was bred of the good tables
of their masters, was upon every occasion freely let out
in their quarrels; it was then too common among their
masters to have feuds with one another, and their servants
at market, or where they met (in that slashing age) did
commonly bang one another's bucklers. Then an esquire,
when he rode to town, was attended by eight or ten men
in blue coats with badges. The lords (then lords in deed
as well as title) lived in their countries like petty kings,
had jura regalia belonging to their seigniories, had their
castles and boroughs, and sent burgesses to the Lower
House ; had gallows within their liberties, where they
could try, condemn, draw and hang ; never went to London
but in parliament-time, or once a year to do their homage
and duty to the king. The lords of manours kept good
houses in their countries, did eat in their great Gothick
halls, at the high table ; (in Scotland, still the architecture
of a lord's house is thus, viz. a great open hall, a kitchen
and buttery, a parlour, over which a chamber for my lord
and lady ; all the rest lye in common, viz. the men-ser-
vants in the hall, (the women in a common room) or oriele,
the folk at the side-tables. (Oriele is an ear, but here it

APPENDIX. 215

signifies a little room at the upper end of the hall, where
stands a square or round table, perhaps in the old time was
at oratory ; in every old Gothic hall is one, viz. at Dracot,
Lekham, Alderton, &c.) The meat was served up by
w£tch- words. Jacks are but an invention of the other
ag3 : the poor boys did turn the spits, and licked the
dripping-pan, and grew to be huge lusty knaves. The
beds of the servants and retainers were in the great halls,
as now in the guard-chamber, <kc. The hearth was com-
monly in the middle, as at most colleges, whence the say-
ing, " Eound about our coal-fire." Here in the halls were
the mummings, cob -loaf -stealing, and great number of
old Christmas plays performed. Every baron and gentle-
man of estate kept great horses for a man at arms. Lords
had their armories to furnish some hundreds of men. The
halls of justices of the peace were dreadful to behold, the
skreens were garnished with corslets and helmets, gaping
with open mouth, with coats of mail, lances, pikes, hal-
berts, brown bills, batterdashers, bucklers, and the modern
colivers and petronils (in King Charles I.'s time) turned
into muskets and pistols. Then were entails in fashion,
(a good prop for monarchy). Destroying of manors began
temp. Henry VIII., but now common; whereby the mean
people live lawless, nobody to govern them, they care for
nobody, having no dependance on anybody. By this me-
thod, and by the selling of the church-lands, is the ballance
of the Government quite altered, and put into the hands
of the common people. No ale-houses, nor yet inns were
there then, unless upon great roads: when they had a
mind to drink, they went to the fryaries ; and when they

216 APPENDIX.

travelled they had entertainment at the religious houses
for three days, if occasion so long required. The meeting
of the gentry was not then at tipling-houses, but in the
fields or forests, with their hawks and hounds, with their
bugle-horns in silken bordries. This part very mu«h
abounded with forests and parks. Thus were good spirits
kept up, and good horses and hides made ; whereas now
the gentry of the nation are so effeminated by coaches,
they are so far from managing great horses, that they knov
not how to ride hunting-horses, besides the spoiling of
several trades dependant. In the last age every yeoman
almost kept a sparrow-hawk; and it was a divertisment
for young gentlewomen to manage sparrow-hawks and
merlins. In King Henry VIII.'s time, one Dame Julian
writ The Art .of Hawking in English verse, which is in
Wilton Library. This country was then a lovely champain,
as that about Sherston and Cots-wold ; very few enclosures,
unless near houses : my grandfather Lyte did remember
when all between Cromhall (at Eston) and Castle-Comb
was so, when Easton, Yatton and Comb did intercommon
together. In my remembrance much hath been enclosed,
and every year, more and more is taken in. Anciently
the Leghs (now corruptly called Slaights) i. e. pastures,
were noble large grounds, as yet the Demesne Lands at
Castle Combe are. So likewise in his remembrance, was
all between King-ton St. Michael and Dracot-Cerne com-
mon fields. Then were a world of labouring people main-
tained by the plough, as yet in Northamptonshire, (fee.
There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days ;
but for Kington St. Michael (no small parish) the church-

APPENDIX. 217

ale at Whitsuntide did the business. In every parish is
(or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks,
&c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the house-
keepers met, and were merry, and gave their charity.
The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowl-
ing, shooting at butts, <fec., the ancients sitting gravely by
and looking on. All things were civil and without scandal.
This church-ale is doubtless derived from the ayaTrou, or
love-feast, mentioned in the New Testament. Mr. A.
Wood assures me, that there were no alms-houses, at least
they were very scarce before the Eeformation ; that over
against Christ Church, Oxon, is one of the ancientest. In
every church was a poor man's box, but I never remem-
bered the use of it ; nay, there was one at great inns, as I
remember it was before the wars. Before the Reformation,
at their vigils or revels, sat up all night fasting and pray-
ing. The night before the day of the dedication of the
church, certain officers were chosen for gathering the money
for charitable uses. Old John Wastfield, of Langley, was
Peter-man at St. Peter's Chapel there ; at which time is
one of the greatest revels in these parts, but the chapel is
converted into a dwelling-house. Such joy and merriment
was every holiday, which days were kept with great solem-
nity and reverence. These were the days when England
was famous for the " grey goose quills." The clerk's was
in the Easter holidays, for his benefit, and the solace of
the neighbourhood.

Since the Reformation, and inclosures aforesaid, these
parts have swarmed with poor people. The parish of Cain
pays to the poor (1663) ,£500 per annum ; and the parish

218 APPENDIX.

of Chippenham little less, as appears by the poor's books
there. Inclosures are for the private, not for the public,
good. For a shepherd and his dog, or a milk-maid, can
manage meadow -land, that upon arable, employed the
hands of several scores of labourers.

In those times (besides the jollities already mentioned)
they had their pilgrimages to Walsingham, Canterbury,
<fcc. to several shrines, as chiefly hereabouts, to St. Joseph's
of Arimathea, at his chapel in Glastonbury Abbey. In
the roads thither were several houses of entertainment,
built purposely for them ; among others, was the house
called " The Chapel of Playster" near Box ; and a great

house called without Lafford's Gate, near

Bristol.

Then the Crusado's to the Holy War were most mag-
nificent and glorious, and the rise, I believe, of the adven-
tures of knights' errant and romances. The solemnities
of processions in and about the churches, and the peram-
bulations in the fields, besides their convenience, were fine
pleasing diversions : the priests went before in their for-
malities, singing the Latin service, and the people came
after, making their good-meaning responses. The rever-
ence given to holy men was very great. Then were the
churches open all day long, men and women going daily
in and out hourly, to and from their devotions. Then were
the consciences of the people kept in so great awe by con-
fession, that just dealing and virtue was habitual. Sir
Edwyn Sandys observed, in his travels in the Catholic
countries, so great use of confession as aforesaid, that
though a severe enemy to the Church of Home, he doth

APPENDIX.

heartily wish it had never been left out by the Church of
England, perceiving the great good it does beyond sea.
Lent was a dismal time, strictly observed by fasting,
prayer, and confessing, against Easter. During the forty
days, the Fryars preached every day.

This country was very full of religious houses ; a man
could not have travelled but he must have met monks,
fryars, bonnehommes, &c. in their several habits, black,
white, grey, &c. And the tingle tangle of their convent
bells, I fancy, made very pretty musick, like the college
bells at Oxford.

Then were there no free-schools ; the boys were edu-
cated at the monasteries ; the young maids, not at Hack-
ney schools, <fec. to learn pride and wantonness, but at the
nunneries, where they had examples of piety, humility,
modesty, and obedience, &c. to imitate and practise. Here
they learned needle-work, the art of confectionary, sur-
gery, physick, writing, drawing, <fcc.

Old Jaques (who lived where Charles Hadnam did)
could see from his house the nuns of the priory of St.
Mary's (juxta Kington) come forth into the nymph-hay
with their rocks and wheels to spin, and with their sewing
work. He would say that he hath told threescore and ten ;
though of nuns there were not so many, but in all, with
lay-sisters, as widows, old maids, and young girls, there
might be such a number. This was a fine way of breeding
up young women, who are led more by example than pre-
cept ; and a good retirement for widows and grave single
women, to a civil, virtuous, and holy life.

Plato says, that the foundation of government is, the

220 APPENDIX.

education of youth ; by this means it is most probable that
that was a golden age. I have heard Judge Jenkins, Mr.
John Latch, and other lawyers, say, that before the Refor-
mation, one shall hardly in a year find an action on the
case, as for slander, <fcc. which was the result of a good
government.

It is a sarcasm, more malicious than true, commonly
thrown at the church-men, that they had too much land ;
for their constitution being in truth considered, they were
rather administrators of those great revenues to pious and
publick uses, than usu-fructuaries. As for themselves, they
had only their habit and competent diet, every order ac-
cording to their prescribed rule ; from which they were
not to vary. Then for their tenants, their leases were
almost as good to them as fee simple, and perchance might
longer last in their families. Sir William Button (the
father) hath often told me, that Alton farm had been held
by his ancestors from the Abbey of Winchester, about four
hundred years. The powers of Stanton Quintin held that
farm of the Abbey of Cirencester in lease 300 years ; and
my ancestors, the Danvers, held West Tokenham for many
generations, of the Abbey of Broadstock, where one of
them was a prior. Memorandum, that in the abbies were
several corrodies granted for poor old shiftless men, which
Fitzherbert speaks of amongst his writs. In France, to
every parish church is more than one priest, (because of
the several masses to be said) which fashion, Mr. Dugdale
tells me, was used here, and at some churches in London,
in near half a dozen.

In many chancels are to be seen three seats with niches

APPENDIX. 221

in the wall (most commonly on the south side) rising by
degrees, and sometimes only three seats, the first being for
the bishop, the second for the priest, and the third for the
deacon. Anciently the bishops visited their churches in
person. This I had from Mr. Dugdale ; as also that in
many churches where stalls are, as at cathedrals, (which I
mistook for chauntries) and in collegiate churches. This
searching after antiquities is a wearisome task. I wish I
had gone through all the church-monuments. The Records
at London I «an search gratis. Though of all studies, I
take the least delight in this, yet methinks I am carried on
with a kind of oestrum ; for nobody else hereabout hardly
cares for it, but rather makes a scorn of it. But methinks
it shows a kind of gratitude and good-nature, to revive the
memories and memorials of the pious and charitable bene-
factors long since dead and gone.

Eston Pierse,
April 28, 1670.

HOROSCOPE OF JOHN AUBREY'S NATIVITY,
from his own Sketch.

INDEX.

BBOT, Archbishop,

his mother's dream

respectinghim,58.

Abracadabra, a spell

to cure the ague,

133.

Ague, spells for its cure, 133, 135,

137.
Alexander the Great, his noted

day, 3 ; his dream, 53.
Angels, converse with, 159.
APPARITIONS, 70-105. Addi-

taments to, 196-208.
April, remarkable days in, 3, 6,

20.

Aspacia, her dream, 198.
August, remarkable days in, 2,

4,7.

Backhouse, William, cure

wrought upon him, 127.
Banks, Hierome, apparition seen
by him, 118.

Barwich, William, his trial and
confession, 94.

Battles, notes of memorable, 2, 3,
4, 10, 12.

Becket, Thomas, Archbishop of
Canterbury, his noted day, 10.

Bell, Capt. Henry, his declara-
tion, 91.

Beryl, visions in the, 154-157.

BLOWS, INVISIBLE, 119.

Borromeo, Cardinal, note of his
death, 8.

Brograve, Mr., invisible blows

received by him, 119.
Brown, Mr. his apparition, 77-
Burroughes, Caisho, visited by an

apparition, 74.

Butleigh, Co. Som., unlucky to
• its possessor, 28.
Button, note of the family of, 27.

Caesar, Augustus, his noted day,

4.
Calendar, Roman, monkish

rhymes in, 6.
Charles the Simple, apparition to

him, 71.
Charles, Duke of Aujou, his noted

day, 5.
Charles I., chronogram upon him,

7 ; anecdotes of him, 41, 42,

114, 125.

Charles II., anecdotes of him, 43.
Charles V., his noted day, 5;

dreams respecting the plague,

58.
Charles IX., voices heard by him,

107.
Charter-House, Co. Som., unlucky

to its possessor, 28.
Christians, the, their observance

of lucky and unlucky days, 3.
Clavel, note of the family of, 27.
Clerkenwell, Co. Midd., fatality

attending a house there, 29.
Clifton, anecdote of the family of,
40.

224

INDEX.

Constantius, the Emperor, note

of his death, 8.
CONVERSE WITH. ANGELS AND

SPIRITS, 159.

Cork, Countess of, her dream, 60.
Cornish, alderman, storm at his

execution, 45.

CORPS-CANDLES IN WALES, 165.
Cromwell, Oliver, his noted day,

10; omen at his death, 41;

conduct in battle, 113.
Crystal, or Beryl, Visions in the,

154-157.
Cures, remarkable, 124, 125, 127,

130, 133-139.

Davy, Lady Anne, her prophe-
cies, 123.

DAY-FATALITY, 1-24.

, OF ROME, 21-24.

Days accounted unlucky by the
Christians, 3 ; by the Jews, 2,
3, 12 ; by the Greeks, 2 ; and
Romans, 2, 3.

unlucky, verses upon, 6.

Dead bodies, fatality attending
their removal, 40.

Dean, Mrs., her dream, 66.

December, remarkable days in, 7.

Digby, Sir Kenelm, his noted
day, 4.

Disinheritance forbidden, 30.

Dogs, anecdote respecting, 46.

Donne, Dr. John, visited by an
apparition, 72.

Dreamers, history of three, 68.

DREAMS, 49-69.

Duffus, Lord, his invisible trans-
portation to France, 149.

Easter-day, proverb respecting,

12 ; when unpropitious, 13.
ECSTACY, 169.
Edward the Confessor, forewarned

of his death, 8 6.
Elizabeth of York, her noted day,

4.
Evans, Arise, cure wrought upon

him, 128.

Evil-eye, effect of, 172.

FAMILIES, FATALITIES OF, 25-32.
Fatality, day, 1-24; attending

places, 25-32 ; of proper names

of princes, 28 ; additaments

to, 196-208.
February, remarkable days in, 2,

4, 5, 6, 19.
Fleece-tavern, Covent- Garden,

fatality attending it, 29.
Francis, Duke of Lunenburgh,

his noted day, 4.
Friday, a remarkable day, 11.
Fry, Francis, encounter with an

apparition, 143.

Galen, his three dreams, 55.
Gawen, notice of the family of,

26.
GLANCES OF LOVE AND MALICE,

172.
Glinsuly, Co. Donegal, incidents

attending a battle there, 47.
Gloucester frigate cast away, 43.
Gonsalo, Captain, his noted day,

12.

Good, Mr., his dream, 87.
Goodwin Sands, why so called, 8.
Greeks, the, April an auspicious

month with them, 2.

Halley, Edmund, his dream, 63.

Hamey, Dr., curious dream re-
specting him, 59.

Hampden, note of the family of,
27.

Hannibal, his dream, 50.

Healy, Daniel, his dreams, 67.

Henry IV., King of France, visit-
ed by an apparition, 74.

Henry VII., Saturday his lucky
day, 12.

Henry VIII., Thursday a fatal
day to him, 12.

Hercules, prediction at his birth,
197.

Hereford, city of, prophecy re-
specting, 85.

INDEX.

225

Holborn, fatality attending a

house there, 29.
Honey wood, Lady, anecdote of

her, 127.

Hoskins, Lady, her dream, 61.
Hungerford, anecdote of the

family of, 26.
Hydrophobia, cure for, 135.

IMPULSES, 112-116.
Inundation, remarkable, 8.

Jacob, Dr., supernatural appear-
ance to him, 82.

James II., King of Scotland, in-
cidents at his coronation, 44 ;
and entry into Dublin, 48.

James IV., remarkable passages
respecting him, 205.

James I., King of England, pro-
phecy respecting him, 123.

January, remarkable days in, 1,
5,6.

Jaundice, cure for the, 138.

Jerusalem, omens attending its
capture, 38.

Jews, the, their observance of
lucky and unlucky days, 1, 2,
3, 12.

July, remarkable days in, 6, 7.

June, remarkable days in, 4, 6.

Kent, county of, inundations

there, 8.
King's-evil, its cure effected, 124,

125.
KNOCKINGS, 117, 118.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger, his dream,
62.

Lewis XL, his observance of Chil-
dermas day, 3.

LOCAL FATALITY, 25-32.

London-deny, fatality respecting
it, 28.

Long, Sir Walter, anecdote of
him, 77.

, Lady, ominous occurrence

at her wedding, 46.

Love, Christopher, storm after
his execution, 45.

Luther, Martin, his " Divine Dis-
courses" destroyed, 91.

MAGICK, 130-141.

Maidstone, Viscountess, super-
natural appearance to her, 88.

Mallard, Mary, cure wrought
upon her, 128.

Mangall, Edward, his trial and
confession, 94.

March, remarkable days in, 5, 6.

Mary, Queen of Scots, objections
to the removal of her body, 40.

May, remarkable days in, 6-19.

Melancthon, Philip, supernatural
appearance to him, 71.

Middleton, Lord, anecdote re-
specting him, 80.

MIRANDA, 124-129.

Mohun, Mr., his apparition, 76.

Montacute, Thomas, Earl of Salis-
bury, note of his death, 8.

Moors, the, when expelled from
Spain, 48; circumstances at-
tending their rule there, 39;
prophecies respecting them,
122.

Morgan, Major John, curious cir-
cumstances attending his sick-
ness, 45 ; supernatural knock-
ings heard by him, 117.

Moryson, Fynes, supernatural ap-
pearance to him, 72.

Muswell, Co. Midd., medicinal
spring there, 64.

Nepier, Sir Richard, M.D., super-
natural appearance to him, 90 ;
his converse with spirits, 159-
161.

Newark, Sir G. L., knockings
heard before his death, 119.

November, remarkable days in,
4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20.

October, remarkable days in, 7,
14, 15.

Q

226

INDEX.

OMENS, 38-48.
ORACLES, 168.
OSTENTA, OR PORTENTS, 33-37.

Panure, note of the family of, 28.
Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of
Canterbury, anecdote of him,
38.

Parliament, the Long, omens at-
tending it, 42.
Parliaments, dates of remarkable,

9.

Peace, treaties of, notes of me-
morable, 15, 18.
Pen, note of the family of, 28.

Periesk, , his dream, 59.

Peripateticks, their assertion re-
specting the soul, 197.
Perrot, Sir John, note of his

death, 8.

Persian Magi, their power of pre-
diction, 196.
Phenomena, 33-37.
Philip of Macedon, his noted day,

3.
Philippi, omens preceding the

battle, 38.

PLACES, FATALITIES or, 25-32.

Plague, the, periodical visitations

of, 31 ; dream respecting its

cure, 58.

Pompey the Great, his noted day,

3.

PORTENTS, 33-37.
Praestantius, his dream, 57.
Predictions, 120-123; addita-

ments to, 196-208.
Princes, fatality of their proper

names, 28.
PRODIGIES, 33-37.
PROPHECIES, 120-123.

Rainbow, the, phenomena attend-
ing its appearance, 33, 34.

Rich, Lady Diana, supernatural
appearance to her, 89.

Romans, the, their observance of
lucky and unlucky days, 2, 3.

ROME, DAY-FATALITY OF, 21-
24.

Roscommon, Lord, anecdote of
him, 114.

St. Augustin, dreams related by
him, 56 ; voices heard by him,
107.

St. Edmund, supernatural ap-
pearance to him, 71.

St. Malachi, his prophecies, 121.

Saturday, a remarkable day, 12.

Savage, Elizabeth, cure wrought
upon her, 128.

Scot, Samuel, cures effected by
him, 124.

Scotland, account of second-
sighted men there, 174-193.

Sea-fights, notes of memorable, 3.

SECOND-SIGHTED MEN IN SCOT-
LAND, ACCOUNT OF, 174-193;
additaments to, 194.

September, remarkable days in,
3, 7, 10, 16-19.

Seymour, Lady, her dream, 60.

Simonides, his dream, 52.

Sixtus Quintus, Pope, his noted
day, 11.

Small-pox, periodical visits of,
30.

Smith, Mr., voices heard by him,
108.

. Curate of Deptford, super-
natural appearance to him, 87.

Socrates, anecdotes of him, 196,
197.

Spain, second-sighted persons
there, 195.

Spirits, converse with, 159.

Spreyton, Co. Devon, remarkable
occurrence there, 142.

Stone, dates a remedy for the, 61.

Storms, remarkable, 10, 43.

Stourton, anecdote of the family
of, 26.

Sun, the, phenomena attending its
appearance, 33-35.

Taylor, , his dream, 67.

Tempests, remarkable, 40.

INDEX.

227

Thane t, Countess of, her dream,
89.

Thargelion, month of, its sixth
day propitious, 196.

Thrush, cure for the, 137.

Thursday, a remarkable day, 12.

Tooth-ache, cure for the, 135, 138.

Towes, Mr., supernatural appear-
ance to him, 79.

Trahern, Mr., supernatural ap-
pearance to him, 90.

TRANSPORTATION BY AN INVI-
SIBLE POWER, 142-153.

Treaties of peace, notes of memor-
able, 15, 18.

Trevor, notice of the family of, 6.

Tuesday, a remarkable day, 10.

Twiss, Dr., supernatural appear-
ance to him, 86.

Tyndal, William, his prophecy,
122.

Usher, Bishop, his ecstacies, 170.

VISIONS IN A BERYL OR CRYS-
TAL, 154-157.

WITHOUT A GLASS OR

CRYSTAL, 158.

VOICES, SUPERNATURAL, 106-

111.

Wales, corpse-candles there, 165.

Wednesday, a remarkable day,
11.

Wells, Co. Somerset, prophecies
on some figures in the cathe-
dral there, 122.

Wens, their cure effected, 125.

White, Sir Thomas, his dream,
65.

Wiltshire, introduction to the
survey of, 209.

Wingate, Capt., his dream, 62.

Wolsey, Cardinal, omen preced-
ing his arrest, 40.

Woodstock, Co. Oxon., relation
of apparitions there, 84.

Wotton, Sir Henry, his dream,
66.

Wren, Sir Christopher, his
dreams, 60, 61.

Wrens, why disliked by the Irish,
47.

York, Edward, Duke of, father of
Edward IV., omens attending
his declaration of title, 39.

, Elizabeth of, her noted day,

4.

, James, Duke of, verses

upon his birth-day, 13.

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BOSWORTH and WARING.— Four Versions of the Holy Gospels,
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BROOKE (Richard, F.S.A.) Visits to Fields of Battle in England,
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CATALOGUE (Classified} of the Library of the Royal Institution
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CHRONICLE of London from 1089 to 1483, written in the 15th
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"THE GAME OF THE CHESSE," the First Book printed in

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CRAIG'S (Rev. J. Duncan) A Hand-Book to the modern Provencal
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be considered as an indispensable companion to his volume, containing a great
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SHAKESPERIANA.

A LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE, including many particulars re-
specting the Poet and his Family, never before published. By
J. 0. HALLIWELL, F.R.S., etc. 8vo, illustrated with 75 enyrarings
on wood, most of which are of new objects from drawings by
Fairholt, cloth. 15s. 1848

This work contains upwards of forty documents respecting Shakespeare and
his family, -neper before published, besides numerous others, indirectly illustrat-
ing the Poet's biography. All the anecdotes and traditions concerning Shake-
speare are here, for the first time, collected, and much new light is thrown on
his personal history, by papers exhibiting him as selling Malt, Stone, &c. Of
the seventy-six engravings which illustrate the volume, more than fifty have
never before been engraved.

It is the only life of Shakespeare to be bought separately from his works.

NEW ILLUSTRATIONS of the Life, Studies, and Writings of
Shakespeare. By the Rev. JOSEPH HUNTER. 2 vols, 8vo, cloth.
7s 6d (original price £1. Is). 1845

Supplementary to all editions of the works of the Poet.
Part 2, price 8s., and Parts 3, 4, and 5 together, price 3s., may be had to
complete copies.

SHAKESPEARE'S Versification, and its Apparent Irregularities

Explained by Examples from Early and Late English Writers.

By W. SIDNEY WALKER, Edited by WM. NANSOM LETTSOM.

foolscap 8vo, cloth. 6s. 1854

" The reader of Shakespeare would do well to make himself acquinted with

this excellent little book previous to entering upon the study of the poet."— .

Mr. Singer, in the Preface to his New Edition of Shakespeare.

A CRITICAL Examination of the Text of Shakespeare ; together
with Notes on his Plays and Poems, by the late W. SIDNEY
WALKER. Edited by W. Nanson Lettsom. 3 vols, foolscap 8vo,
cloth. 18s. 1860

"Very often we find ourselves differing from Mr. Walker en readings and
interpretations, but we seldom differ from him without respect for his scholar-
ship and care. His are not the wild guesses at truth which neither gods nor
men have stomach to endure, but the suggestions of a trained intelligence and
a chastened taste. Future editors and commentators will be bound to consult
these volumes, and consider their suggestions."— Athencaum.

" A valuable addition to our Philological Literature, the most valuable part
being the remarks on contemporary literature, the mass of learning by
which the exact meaning and condition of a word is sought to be established. "
— Literary Gazette.

" Mr. Walker's Works undoubtedly form altogether the most valuable body of
verbal criticism that has yet appeared from an individual." — Mr. Dyce's Preface.
to Vol. 1. of his Shakespeare, 1864.

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Proverbs, etc., illustrating the Works of English Authors, par-
ticularly Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. A new edition,
with Considerable Additions both of Words and Examples. By
James 0. Halliwell, F.R.S., and Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A.
2 thick vols, 8vo, cloth. £1. Is. 1867

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and manners of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, and it is quite inde-
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additional words and examples are distinguished from those of the original
text by a t prefixed to each. The work contains "between five and six thousand
Additional examples, the result of original research, not merely supplementary
Jo Nares, but to all other compilations of the kind.

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A LETTER to Dr. Farmer (in reply to Ritson), relative to his
Edition of Shakespeare, published in 1790. By EDMUND
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COMPARATIVE Review of the Opinions of James Boaden in 1795
and in 1796, relative to the Shakespeare MSS. 8vo, 2s 1796

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HISTORICAL Account of the Monumental Bust of Shakespeare,
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VORTIGERN, an Historical Play, represented at Drury Lane, April

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SHAKESPEARE'S Will, copied from the Original in the Prerogative
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1841
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" WHO was 'Jack Wilson,' the Singer of Shakespeare's Stage ?" An
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A FEW Words in Reply to the Rev. A. Dyce's " Few JTotes on
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who passed them off under the name of an actor, for fear of compromising his
professional prospects and philosophic gravity. Only last year, when this sub-
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speedily returned with a small volume of dramatic criticisms (Mr. Smith's book)
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expression. 'There,' said he, 'read that, and you will come over to my
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PERICLES, Prince of Tyre, a Novel, by Geo. Wilkins, printed in
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THE Sonnets of Shakespeare, rearranged and divided into Four
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LL.D. Foolscap 8vo, with a facsimile, shewing the pseudo old
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STRICTURES on Mr. Hamilton's Inquiry into the Genuineness of
the MS. Corrections in J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakespeare.
Folio, 1632. By SCRUTATOR. 8vo, sewed. Is 1860

SHAKESPEARE and the Bible, shewing how much the great Dra-
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5s 6d 1861

SHAKESPEARE, his Friends and Contemporaries. By G. M.
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1861—3

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1862

SHAKESPEARE No Deerstealer ; or, a Short Account of Fulbroke
Park, near Stratford-on-Avon. By C. Holte Bracebride. 8vo,
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WHELER's Historical Account of the Birthplace of Shakespeare,
reprinted from the edition of 1824, with a few prefatory remarks
by J. 0. Halliwell. Svo, front. Is 6d 1863

BRIEF Hand List of the Collections respecting the Life and Works
of Shakespeare, and the History and Antiquities of Stratford-
upon-Avon, formed by the late Robert BeU Wheler, and pre-
sented by his sister to that Town, to be preserved for ever in
the Shakespeare Library and Museum. Small square 8vo.
7s 6d ChuwicTc Press, 1863

Only 100 copies printed at the expense of Mr. Halliwell, not for sale.

SHAKESPEARE'S Coriolanus. Edited, with Notes and Preface,
by F. A. LEO, with a quarto facsimile of the Tragedy of Corio-
lanus, from the folio of 1623, photolithographed by A. BUR-
CHARD, and with Extracts from North's Plutarch. 4to, elegantly
printed, extra cloth. 15s 1864

SHAKSPERE and Jonson. — Dramatic versus "Wit-Combats —Auxi-
liary Forces — Beaumont and Fletcher, Marston, Decker, Chap-
man, and Webster. Post Svo. 4s. 1864

REPRINTS of Scarce Pieces of Shakespearian Criticism, No. 1, " Re-
marks on Hamlet, 1736." Fcap. 8vo. Is 6d 1864

THREE Notelets on Shakespeare— I. Shakespeare in Germany ; II.

The Folk-lore of Shakespeare ; III. Was Shakespeare a Soldier ?

By WILLIAM J. THOMS, F.S.A. Post Svo, cloth. 4s 6d 1865
" On this subject of Shakespeare iu Germany, Mr. W. J. Thorns lias reprinted
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two other ' Notelets ' on the Poet — ' The Folk Lore of Shakespeare,' from the
ATHENAEUM, and ' Was Shakespeare a Soldier ?' from NOTES AND QUERIES. Not
the least of Mr. Thoms's many services to English literature is the invention of
that admirable \vordfolk-lore, which appeared for the first time in these column's
only a few years ago, and has already become a domestic term in every corner
of the world. His illustration of Shakespeare's knowledge of this little world
of fairy dreams and legends is a perfect bit of criticism. He answers the query
as to Shakespeare's having seen martial service in the affirmative ; and therein
we think his argument sound, his conclusion right. These ' Notelets ' were
very well worthy of being collected into a book."— Athenceum.

SHAKESPEARE'S Editors and Commentators. By the Rev. W. R.

ARROWSMITH, Incumbent of Old St. Pancras. Svo, sewed. Is 6d

1865
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THE SHAKESPEARE EXPOSITOR: being Notes, and Emenda-
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cloth. 7s 6d 1867

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editor, pointing out the origin of the various tales, and authors who have used
them.

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British Museum, this will be a handy guide book, in which an immediate
answer may be sought and found for the oft-repeated questions before these
wondrous remains — of what are their natures? what their meanings? what
their purposes?"— Athenaeum.

SHARPE (Samuel) Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity,
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which even the best-informed reader may wile away an hour with in recalling
his own wanderings in the literary fields. The great glory of this book is that
it is thoroughly natural. It does not aim at fine writing or sensational
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familiar with the great treasures of our literature, would give forth in the quiet
of a country parsonage, when summer smiled over the fields and woods, and a
garden gave forth its pleasant sights and sounds. — Birmingham Journal.

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ings, cloth. 4s 6d (original price 10s 6d)

WRIGHT'S (Thomas, M.A., F.8.A., Member of the Inststute of
France) Essay on Arch geological Subjects, and on various
Questions connected with the History of Art, Science, and
Literature in the Middle Ages. 2 vols, post 8vo, printed by
Whittingham, illustrated with 120 engravings, cloth. 16s
CONTEXTS : — 1. On the Remains of a Primitive People in the South-East
corner of Yorkshire. 2. On some ancient Barrows, or Tumuli, opened in East
Yorkshire. 3. On some curious forms of Sepulchral Interment found in East
Yorkshire. 4. Treago, and the large Tumulus at St. Weonard's. 6. On the
Ethnology of South Britain at the period of the Extinction of the Roman
Government in the Island. 6. On the Origin of the Welsh. 7. On the Anglo-
Saxon Antiquities, with a particular reference to the Fausset Collection. 8.
On the True Character of the Biographer Asser. 9. Anglo-Saxon Architecture,
illustrated from illuminated Manuscripts. 10. On the Literary History of
Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Britons, and of the Romantic Cycle of
King Arthur. 11. On Saints' Lives and Miracles. 12. On Antiquarian Exca-
vations and Researches in the Middle Ages. 13. On the Ancient Map of the
World preserved in Hereford Cathedral, as illustrative of the History of
Geography in the Middle Ages. 14. On the History of the English Language.
15. On the Abacus, or Mediseval System of Arithmetic. 16. On the Antiquity
of Dates expressed in Arabic Numerals. 17. Remarks on an Ivory Casket of
the beginning of the Fourteenth Centuiy. 18. On the Carvings on the Stalls in
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches. 19. Illustrations of some Questions relating
to Architectural Antiquities— (a) Mediseval Architecture illustrated from Illu-
minated Manuscripts : (5) A Word more on Mediaeval Bridge Builders : (c) On
the Remains of proscribed Races in Mediseval and Modern Society, as explaining
certain peculiarities in Old Churches. 20. On the Origin of Rhymes in Medi-
reval Poetry, and its bearing on the Authencity of the Early Welsh Poems. 21.
On the History of the Drama in the Middle Ages. 22. On the Literature of the
Troubadours. 23. On the History of Comic Literature during the Middle Ages.
24. On the Satirical Literature of the Reformation.

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manner on subjects that have been hitherto but imperfectly understood."—
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WRIGHT (Thomas) Essays on the Literature, Popular Superstitions ,
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CONTENTS :— Essay 1. Anglo-Saxon Poetry— 2. Anglo-Norman Poetry— 3.
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and the Scholastic Philosophy — 7. Dr. Grimm's German Mythology — 8. National
Fairy Mythology of England— 9. Popular Superstitions of Modern Greece, and
their connection with the English — 10. Friar Rush and the Frolicsome Elves —
11. Dunlop's History of Fiction— 12. History and Transmission of Popular
Stories — 13. Poetry of History — 14. Adventures of Hereward the Saxon — 15.
Story of Eustace the Monk — 16. History of Fulke Fitzwarine — 17. Popular
Cycle or Robin Hood Ballads — 18. Conquest of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans
—19. Old English Political Songs— 20. Dunbar, the Scottish Poet.

WRIGHT (Thomas) Biographia Britannica Literaria, or Biography of
Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland. ANGLO-
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The Anglo-Norman Period. Thick Svo, cloth, 6s (original

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WRIGHT'S (Thomas) Anecdota Literaria, a Collection of Short
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useful to the Biographer, the Genealogist, and the Historian.

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sources the information here collected will, it is believed, be found as accurate
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of life, this work has been prosecuted during all the time that could be spared
from professional engagements for a period of nearly fifty years.

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RECORDS of the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, with
extracts from other Records relating to the affairs of the Burghs
of Scotland, 1295-1597, edited by J. D. MARWICK. 4to, pp. 600,
cloth, only 150 printed for sale. £1. 10s

PASSAGES from the Autobiography of a "MAN OF KENT," toge-
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KENRICK (Rev. John, Curator of Antiquities in the Museum at
York, author of "Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs" "History
of Phoenicia," &c.) Papers on subjects of Archaeology and His-
tory communicated to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 8vo,
cloth. 3s 6d. (Original price 9s.)

CONTENTS.
The Rise, Extension, and Suppression of the Order of Knights Templar in

Yorkshire.
Historical Traditions of Pontefract Castle, including an Enquiry into the Place

and manner of Richard the Second's Death.
Relation of Coins to History, illustrated from Roman Coins found at Methal,

in Yorkshire.

The Causes of the Destruction of Classical Literature.
The History of the Recovery of Classical Literature.

The Reigri of Trajan, illustrated by a monument of his reign found at York.
Roman Wax Tablets found in Transylvania.
New Year's Day in Ancient Rome.

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Now Publishing, in Parts, at 2s 6d, in 8vo, in double columns, to be
completed in Ten Parts,

A NEW WORK BY MB. W. CAREW HAZLITT, ON
EARLY ENGLISH POETRY, FOLK-LORE, &c.

A HANDBOOK TO THE

EARLY POPULAR, POETICAL,

AND

DRAMATIC LITERATURE OF GREAT BRITAIN,

FROM THE INVENTION OF FEINTING TO 1660.
By W. CAREW HAZLITT.

This Bibliographical Work, which has been an eight or nine years'
labour of love to the Author, will bring together a large variety of
fresh, information, and very numerous and important notices of
undescribed works and editions in Early English and Scotish Lite-
rature.

Such a project as the present one will necessarily, in its execution,
go in a certain measure over ground which has been occupied al-
ready by other labourers in a similar field ; but the field is one
which, has been cultivated in such a manner as to afford rich mate-
rial for new workers.

Our early literature has very numerous admirers both in the Old
World and in the New. It is to these that I appeal for encourage-
ment and support, and I do so with confidence.

One branch of early English Literature which, in existing works
of reference has been very superficially treated, will receive pecxiliar
attention, and a new prominence to which I think it fairly entitled.
I refer to our Popular Literature in the strict sense of that term,
and to our Folk Lore, which are bound together by very intimate
ties. I shall not scruple to give a large space to TOM THUMB and
ROBIN GOODFELLOW ; for my purposes, these two heroes are worth
more than a cartload of tracts political and polemical. I purpose
to enter at large into the bibliographical history of all our Ro-
mances of chivalry, all our Jest-Books, all our Drolleries, and all
our old story-books.

The light and perishable effusions of passed centuries will have a
higher fascination for me than the gravest discourses of my most
erudite and accomplished conntrymen — for this once. I shall do

56 JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SO HO SQUARE.

more honour to Jack of Newbury and Tom, Long the Carrier, and
Captain Hind, the Great Robber of England, than to king, duke, or
prelate. I, too, shall be drawn away from Bishop Latimer to Robin
Hood.

In my pages will be gathered together and embodied (in a few
words) all the latest discoveries in bibliography (with a noticeable
number of my own) ; and an examination of the contents will, it is
hoped, justify completely the undertaking.

I propose to furnish in the case of all rare and important volumes
the imprint, and a collation, with a note of the public repositories
in which they are to be found.

Further, to supply what, I think it will be granted readily, has
been hitherto a want — a catalogue as perfect as possible, of the
works of William Elderton, Thomas Deloney, Richard Johnson,
Martin Parker, Richard Tarlton, Laurence Price, George Gascoigne,
George Whetstone, John Taylor the water poet, Andrew Borde, and
many other authors, whose productions have been hitherto very im-
perfectly described and catalogued.

Surprising as it may appear at first sight, such a task has never
down to this time been efficiently performed ; and the Hand-book
will also comprise, among others, new and thoroughly-revised arti-
cles under the following heads : —

Bel (Adam), Boccaccio, Baldwin, Brathwaite, Breton, Burel,
Churchyard, Cards, Chapman, Chettle, Christmas Carols, Common-
wealth, Charles I. and II., Constable (H. and J.), Cookery, Craig,
Crouch (Humphrey and John), Cupid, Chaucer, Decker, Deloney,
Daniel, Davies of Hereford, Davies (Sir J.), Davison, Drayton,
Drolleries, Dunbar, Elderton, Elizabeth (Queen), Elizabeth (of Bo-
hemia), England, Essex (County of), Essex (Earls of), Faustus,
Fevre, Friar and Boy, Flecknoe, Fleming, Fletcher (John, Joseph,
and Robert), Fulwell, Garlands, Gawayne, Gascoigne, Gesta Roma-
norum, Greene, Gringoire, Hake, Henryson, Hawes, Hind (Capt.),
Holland, Howleglas, Howell (J.), Huggard, James I., Jest Books,
John (King), Johnson (R. and T.), Jonson, Jordan, Julius, Kent,
Kyd, Laud (Archbishop), Lenton, Leland, Lithgow, Lloyd (David,
Lodovick and Richard) Lodge, London, Lydgate, Lyly, Lyndeay,
Marlowe, Margaret (St.), Markham, Massinger, — and the other moiety
of the Alphabet, N to Z, would yield quite as rich a harvest of
names.

Hundreds of fugitive pieces, broadsides, and ballads will be in-
dexed for the first time, either under general heads, or under the
author's name, where his name is known, and important additions
will be so made in very numerous instances to the list of a man's
writings. I may adduce, for example, SAMUEL ROWLANDS, ROBERT
GREENE, THOMAS DELONEY, and MARTIN PARKER. The books and
impressions of books, which I shall describe for the first time, are
very numerous indeed. W. C. H.

S. & J, BRAWN, Steam Printers, 13 Princes St., Little Queen St., Holboni, W.O.

Aubrey, John.
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